Frederick W. Marks
Frederick W. Marks III (born 1940) is an American historian and Catholic apologist. As a scholar, he has written and taught extensively on American diplomatic history. As a proponent of Roman Catholicism, he has written dozens of articles and tracts and spoken extensively in public. Education. Marks attended Loyola High School in New York City, attained his B.A. from Holy Cross College in 1962 and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1968. He taught at the University of Michigan from 1967 to 1968, at Purdue University from 1968 to 1973 and at St. John’s  University from 1974 to 1979. At St. John's, he supervised the doctoral dissertation of graduate student Daniel W. Fitz-Simons, who had been in Navy Intelligence and the DIA before teaching at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College. He is the author of four books and dozens of articles on history. His work is characterized by multi-archival research overseas. In addition to utilizing repositories all over the United States, his work has taken him to Germany, France, England, Scotland, Canada, Guatemala, and the Republic of China. Each of his books on American diplomatic history contains extensive endnotes  and bibliographies. In the field of Roman Catholicism, Marks has written six books and scores of full-length articles, seventeen of which have appeared in leading journals for the Catholic clergy. In addition, he has written a handbook for engaged and newly married Roman Catholic couples. It was translated into Spanish and Indonesian in 2008. He continues to be active as the author of tracts and Christian apologetics. His recent work is devoted to the Christian view of suffering and what people perceive as failure. Publications. Books on diplomatic history. Robert W. Love, Jr., diplomatic historian at the US Naval  Academy, introduced Marks in 1995 by writing: "Frederick W. Marks' wide-ranging interests have resulted in important reinterpretations of the Constitutional Convention, Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy, and John Foster Dulles and the Cold War. His "Wind Over Sand" revised completely our understanding of Franklin Roosevelt's statesmanship." Personal life. Marks has been married for over fifty years to Sylvia Marks, who holds a Ph.D. degree from Princeton University and teaches English at New York University's Polytechnic Institute.