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Where was Robert Dallek educated from 1954 to 1955?
Robert Dallek Robert A . Dallek ( born May 16 , 1934 ) is an American historian specializing in the presidents of the United States , including Franklin D . Roosevelt , John F . Kennedy , Lyndon B . Johnson , and Richard Nixon . He retired as a history professor at Boston University in 2004 and previously taught at Columbia University , the University of California , Los Angeles ( UCLA ) , and Oxford University . He won the Bancroft Prize for his 1979 book Franklin D . Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy , 1932–1945 as well as other awards for scholarship and teaching . Personal life . Born in Brooklyn , New York , Dallek is the son of Rubin ( a business-machine dealer ) and Esther ( Fisher ) Dallek . Dallek attended the University of Illinois , graduating with a B.A . in history in June 1955 . He did graduate work at Columbia University , earning an M.A . in February 1957 , and a Ph.D . in June 1964 . While working on his Ph.D. , he was a history instructor at Columbia . He married Geraldine Kronmal ( a policy health analyst ) on August 22 , 1965 . Academic career . In 1964-1994 Dallek advanced from assistant to full professor of history at the Department of History at University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA ) . From 1966 to 1968 he was a graduate adviser . From 1972 to 1974 he served as vice chair of the department . From 1981 to 1985 he was a research associate at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute . In 1993 he was a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology , and from 1994 to 1995 he was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University , which in 1995 awarded him an honorary M.A . Since 1996 Dallek has been a visiting professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas , and a professor of history at Boston University . From 2004 to 2005 he was Montgomery Fellow and a visiting professor in the history and government departments at Dartmouth College . Dallek is a member of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations . An Unfinished Life : John F . Kennedy , 1917-1963 . In 2003 , Dallek published the New York Times Bestseller , the first major biography of John F . Kennedy in almost 40 years . Based on archival resources and unprecedented access to his medical records , it revealed his secret struggle with major health problems as well as his love affairs , the backstage role of his father , his appointment of his brother Robert F . Kennedy to the office of United States Attorney General , and speculations about what the President would have done about the Vietnam War if he had lived . Nixon and Kissinger : Partners in Power . In 2007 Dallek published Nixon and Kissinger : Partners in Power , which claims that they were visionaries and cynics at the same time , in an attempt to explain the ups and down of their diplomatic careers . The careers of both Nixon and Kissinger reflect the extent to which great accomplishments and public wrongdoing can spring from inner lives . The book was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in History . Works . Books . - Democrat and Diplomat : The Life of William E . Dodd ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1968 ) read online - 1898 : McKinleys Decision – The United States Declares War on Spain ( New York : Chelsea House Publishers , 1969 ) read online - The Roosevelt Diplomacy and World War II ( New York : Holt , Rinehart and Winston , 1970 ) read online - The Dynamics of World Power : Western Europe ( with Robert N . Burr and Walter LaFeber ) ( New York : Chelsea House Publishers , 1973 ) read online - The Dynamics of World Power : A Documentary History of United States Foreign Policy , 1945-1973 ( ed . Arthur M . Schlesinger , Jr. , with Robert N . Burr , and Walter LaFeber ) ( New York : Chelsea House Publishers , 1973 ) read online - Franklin D . Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy , 1932–1945 ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1979 ) ( Bancroft Prize ) read online - The American Style of Foreign Policy : Cultural Politics and Foreign Affairs ( New York : Knopf , 1983 ) read online - Ronald Reagan : The Politics of Symbolism ( Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press , 1984 , ) read online - Lone Star Rising : Lyndon Johnson and his Times , 1908–1960 ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1991 ) read online read online - Franklin D . Roosevelt as World Leader : An Inaugural Lecture Delivered before the University of Oxford on 16 May 1995 ( New York : Clarendon Press , 1995 ) - Hail to the Chief : The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents ( New York : Hyperion , 1996 ) read online - Flawed Giant : Lyndon Johnson and his Times , 1961–1973 ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1998 ) read online - ( Boston : Little , Brown and Company , 2003 ) - Lyndon B . Johnson : Portrait of a President ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2004 ) read online - Lessons from the Lives and Times of Presidents ( Richmond , Virginia : University of Richmond , 2004 ) read online - Let Every Nation Know : John F . Kennedy in His Own Words ( with Terry Golway ) ( Naperville , IL : Sourcebooks , 2006 ) read online - Nixon and Kissinger : Partners in Power ( New York : HarperCollins , 2007 ) Review in New York Times - Harry S . Truman : The 33rd President , 1945-1953 ( Times Books , 2008 , ) - The Lost Peace : Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope , 1945–1953 ( HarperCollins , 2010 , ) Review in Foreign Affairs - Camelots Court : Inside the Kennedy White House ( New York : HarperCollins , 2013 ) Review in Washington Post - Franklin D . Roosevelt : A Political Life ( New York : Viking , 2017 , ) Journal articles . - Franklin Roosevelt as world leader , The American Historical Review , 76 ( 1971 ) : 1503–1513 - National mood and American foreign policy : a suggestive essay , American Quarterly , 34 ( 1982 ) : 229–261 - Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam : the making of a tragedy , Diplomatic History , 20 ( 1996 ) : 147 - Tales of the tapes , Reviews in American History , 26 ( 1998 ) : 333–338 - John F . Kennedys Civil Rights Quandary . American History 38.3 ( 2003 ) : 36 Essays in edited volumes . - American perceptions of the Soviet Union , in Abbott Gleason ( ed. ) , Cold War-Cold Peace : Soviet American Relations , 1933–1983 ( Boston : Beacon Press , 1975 ) - Triumphant America in a shaken world , in Sanford J . Ungar ( ed. ) , Estrangement : America and the World ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1985 ) - When Presidents Become Weak , in Walter Isaacson ( ed. ) , Profiles in Leadership : Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness ( New York : W . W . Norton & Company , 2011 ) TV appearances . Dallek appeared on The Daily Show in July 2007 . He has made numerous appearances on CNN and on public television and radio , including several on-camera comments included the History Channels JFK:A Presidency Revealed and the American Experience biographies F.D.R . and LBJ . External links . - UCLA Profile - Booknotes interview with Dallek on Lone Star Rising , September 22 , 1991 - C-SPAN Q&A interview with Dallek on Nixon and Kissinger : Partners in Power , April 29 , 2007 - Robert Dallek on Three Last Questions about JFK ( audiocast )