birth_date: 1918-03-14 00:00:00
avg_rating: 4.21
name: William Reynolds Braisted
about: A native of Washington, D.C., William Braisted studied as an undergraduate at George Washington and Stanford Universities and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Chicago. A specialist in Asian history, he taught at the University of Texas in Austin from 1942 until his retirement. During World War II, he served as a research consultant for the Military Intelligence Service as an expert on Japanese politics.
death_date: 2017-06-14 00:00:00