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'''David Fromkin''' is a noted ], ], and ], most known for his definitive account of the creation of the modern ], '']'' (1989), in which he recounts the key role that European policy toward the Middle East between 1914 and 1922 played in the creation of the situation that exists there today. He has written seven books in total, with his most recent in 2004, ''Europe's Last Summer: Who Started The Great War in 1914?''
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'''David Henry Fromkin''' (August 27, 1932 {{ndash}} June 11, 2017) was an American historian, best known for his interpretive account of the Middle East, '']'' (1989), in which he recounts the role European powers played between 1914 and 1922 in creating the modern Middle East.<ref name="nyt200617">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/world/middleeast/obituary-david-fromkin-dead-middle-east-author.html|title=David Fromkin, Professor and Author on Mideast, Dies at 84|last=Roberts|first=Sam|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 15, 2017|access-date=June 20, 2017}}</ref> The book was a finalist for both the ]<ref name="nyt200617"/> and the ].<ref name=RIP/> Fromkin wrote seven books, ending in 2007 with ''The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners''.


==Life==
⚫ A graduate of the ] and the University of Chicago Law School, he is University Professor, Professor of ], ], and Law at ], where he is also the Director of The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Long-Range Future.


Fromkin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 27, 1932.<ref name=RIP>{{cite web|last=Obituary|title=RIP: Prof. David Fromkin Dies at 84|url=https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/2017/06/14/professor-david-fromkin-dies-at-84/|access-date=June 14, 2017}}</ref>
Fromkin also sits on the editorial board of the ], a publication of the ] think tank.


He died on June 11, 2017, in New York City due to heart failure; he was 84.<ref name="nyt200617"/>
⚫ == Selected bibliography ==


==Career==
⚫ *''The Question of Government: An Inquiry into the Breakdown of Modern Political Systems'' (1975)
⚫ A graduate of the ] and the ], he was Professor Emeritus of History and ], and Law at the ] at ], where he was also the Director of The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Long-Range Future.<ref name="nyt200617"/>

Before his career as a historian, Fromkin was an attorney and political adviser.<ref name=RIP/> In the 1972 ] ] campaign, he served as a foreign-policy adviser to candidate ].<ref name=RIP/> As an attorney, he served as both prosecutor and defense counsel in the ].<ref name=RIP/>

He retired as professor emeritus in 2013.<ref name="nyt200617"/>

==Assessment==
] criticized Fromkin for his portrayal of the US-backed ] in the ]. Discussing Fromkin's book ''Kosovo Crossing: The Reality of American Intervention in the Balkans'', Chomsky stated that Fromkin "asserts without argument that the U.S. and its allies acted out of 'altruism' and 'moral fervor' alone" in ] during the ].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chomsky |first1=Noam |title=A new generation draws the line : humanitarian intervention and the "responsibility to protect" today |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=9781315633237 |edition=Expanded |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TxjvCgAAQBAJ|access-date=22 April 2022|quote=In a widely-praised book on the war, historian David Fromkin asserts without argument that the U.S. and its allies acted out of "altruism" and "moral fervor" alone, forging "a new kind of approach to the use of power in world politics" as they "reacted to the deportation of more than a million Kosovars from their homeland" by bombing so as to save them "from horrors of suffering, or from death".}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=A Review of NATO's War over Kosovo|url=https://chomsky.info/200005__/|access-date=2021-12-26|website=chomsky.info}}</ref>

⚫ == Selected bibliography ==
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⚫ *'']'' (1989) {{ISBN|0-8050-0857-8}}, {{ISBN|0-8050-6884-8}} {{OCLC|53814831}}(paperback)
*“Britain, France, and the Diplomatic Agreements.” In ''The Creation of Iraq, 1914–1921'', ed. Reeva Spector Simon and Eleanor H. Tejirian, 134–145. New York: Columbia University press, 2004.
⚫ *''Europe's Last Summer: Who started the Great War in 1914?'' (2004) {{ISBN|0-375-41156-9}}, {{ISBN|0-375-72575-X}} (paperback)
*''Kosovo Crossing: The Reality of American Intervention in the Balkans'', New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. (2002) {{ISBN|9780684869537}}, {{ISBN|0-684-86953-5}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fromkin |first1=David |title=Kosovo crossing : the reality of American intervention in the Balkans |date=2002 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York, NY |isbn=9780684869537 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hVFfmryGfb0C |access-date=22 April 2022}}</ref>
⚫ *''In the Time of the Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur, The Generation That Changed America's Role in the World'' (1995) {{ISBN|0-394-58901-7}}, {{ISBN|0-679-76728-2}} (paperback)
*''The Independence of Nations'' (1981) *''The Independence of Nations'' (1981)
*''The Importance of T. E. Lawrence.'' From The New Criterion Vol. 10, No. 1, September 1991.
⚫ *''A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922'' (1989) ISBN 0-8050-0857-8, ISBN 0-8050-6884-8 (paperback)
⚫ *''The Question of Government: An Inquiry into the Breakdown of Modern Political Systems'' (1975)
⚫ *''In the Time of the Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marhsall, MacArthur, The Generation that Changed America's Role in the World'' (1995) ISBN 0-394-58901-7, ISBN 0-679-76728-2 (paperback)
*"''The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners"'' (2007)
⚫ *''Europe's Last Summer: Who started the Great War in 1914?'' (2004) ISBN 0-375-41156-9, ISBN 0-375-72575-X (paperback)
*''The Way of the World'' (1998)

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David Fromkin
Born(1932-08-27)August 27, 1932
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
DiedJune 11, 2017(2017-06-11) (aged 84)
New York, New York
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Scientific career
InstitutionsBoston University
Pardee School of Global Studies

David Henry Fromkin (August 27, 1932 – June 11, 2017) was an American historian, best known for his interpretive account of the Middle East, A Peace to End All Peace (1989), in which he recounts the role European powers played between 1914 and 1922 in creating the modern Middle East. The book was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Fromkin wrote seven books, ending in 2007 with The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners.

Life

Fromkin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 27, 1932.

He died on June 11, 2017, in New York City due to heart failure; he was 84.

Career

A graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Law School, he was Professor Emeritus of History and International Relations, and Law at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, where he was also the Director of The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Long-Range Future.

Before his career as a historian, Fromkin was an attorney and political adviser. In the 1972 Democratic primary campaign, he served as a foreign-policy adviser to candidate Hubert Humphrey. As an attorney, he served as both prosecutor and defense counsel in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps.

He retired as professor emeritus in 2013.

Assessment

Noam Chomsky criticized Fromkin for his portrayal of the US-backed NATO intervention in the Kosovo War. Discussing Fromkin's book Kosovo Crossing: The Reality of American Intervention in the Balkans, Chomsky stated that Fromkin "asserts without argument that the U.S. and its allies acted out of 'altruism' and 'moral fervor' alone" in bombing Yugoslavia during the Kosovo war.

Selected bibliography

External videos
video icon Booknotes interview with Fromkin on In the Time of the Americans, October 22, 1995, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Fromkin on The Way of the World, March 1, 1999, C-SPAN
  • A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914–1922 (1989) ISBN 0-8050-0857-8, ISBN 0-8050-6884-8 OCLC 53814831(paperback)
  • “Britain, France, and the Diplomatic Agreements.” In The Creation of Iraq, 1914–1921, ed. Reeva Spector Simon and Eleanor H. Tejirian, 134–145. New York: Columbia University press, 2004.
  • Europe's Last Summer: Who started the Great War in 1914? (2004) ISBN 0-375-41156-9, ISBN 0-375-72575-X (paperback)
  • Kosovo Crossing: The Reality of American Intervention in the Balkans, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. (2002) ISBN 9780684869537, ISBN 0-684-86953-5
  • In the Time of the Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur, The Generation That Changed America's Role in the World (1995) ISBN 0-394-58901-7, ISBN 0-679-76728-2 (paperback)
  • The Independence of Nations (1981)
  • The Importance of T. E. Lawrence. From The New Criterion Vol. 10, No. 1, September 1991.
  • The Question of Government: An Inquiry into the Breakdown of Modern Political Systems (1975)
  • "The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners" (2007)
  • The Way of the World (1998)

References

  1. ^ Roberts, Sam (June 15, 2017). "David Fromkin, Professor and Author on Mideast, Dies at 84". The New York Times. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
  2. ^ Obituary. "RIP: Prof. David Fromkin Dies at 84". Retrieved June 14, 2017.
  3. Chomsky, Noam (2016). A new generation draws the line : humanitarian intervention and the "responsibility to protect" today (Expanded ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 9781315633237. Retrieved April 22, 2022. In a widely-praised book on the war, historian David Fromkin asserts without argument that the U.S. and its allies acted out of "altruism" and "moral fervor" alone, forging "a new kind of approach to the use of power in world politics" as they "reacted to the deportation of more than a million Kosovars from their homeland" by bombing so as to save them "from horrors of suffering, or from death".
  4. "A Review of NATO's War over Kosovo". chomsky.info. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
  5. Fromkin, David (2002). Kosovo crossing : the reality of American intervention in the Balkans. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780684869537. Retrieved April 22, 2022.

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