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Robert Dallek

About The Author

Robert Dallek is an emeritus professor of history at UCLA. He has taught at Columbia University, UCLA, Oxford (where he was Harmsworth visiting professor), Boston University, and Dartmouth. He currently teaches at the Bing Stanford in Washington, a program that gives Stanford University students the opportunity to intern and study in Washington, D.C. He is the author of a dozen books on American history, including Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life;An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963; volumes on Lyndon Johnson and Harry Truman; Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power; and Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents. In 2020, he will publish How Did We Get Here? From TR to Donald Trump. He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Scientists. He currently resides in Washington, D.C.

Books by Robert Dallek