William Taubman

William Chase Taubman ( born November 13, 1940 in New York City ) is an American political scientist.

Life

William Chase Taubman attended the Bronx High School of Science and studied at Harvard University, where he received his Bachelor in 1962. He then studied at Columbia University, where he graduated in 1965 and 1969 made ​​his doctorate. He is currently Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. He mainly deals with the time and the Präsidentschäft of Nikita Khrushchev. His published in 2004 about him biography Khrushchev: The Man and His Era was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Best Biography and a National Book Critics Circle Award.

Work

  • Stalin 's American Policy: From Entente to Détente to Cold War ( 1982)
  • Moscow Spring ( 1989)
  • Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (2003)
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