Fredrik Logevall speaks at the Miller Center of Public Affairs in 2013
Born
1963
Stockholm, Sweden
Alma mater
Simon Fraser University (BA), University of Oregon (MA), Yale University (PhD)
Fredrik Logevall is a Swedish-American historian and educator at Harvard University, where he is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.[1] He is a specialist in U.S. politics and foreign policy. Logevall was previously the Stephen and Madeline Anbinder Professor of History at Cornell University, where he also served as vice provost and as director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.[2] He won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. His most recent book, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (2020), won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.[3][4]
Logevall’s essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, Daily Beast, and Foreign Affairs, among other publications.[5][6][7][8]
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^Logevall, Gordon M. Goldstein,Fredrik (2016-09-17). "Compared to Trump, Goldwater Was a Sensible Moderate". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2022-06-24.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^LogevallNovember/December 2012, Fredrik (2020-05-08). "What Really Happened in Vietnam". ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2022-06-24.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^Logevall, Fredrik (2021-08-16). "How America Lost Its Way in Afghanistan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
^"We need Richard Holbrooke more than ever". POLITICO. 2015-12-07. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
FredrikLogevall is a Swedish-American historian and educator at Harvard University, where he is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs...
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America's Vietnam is a 2012 book by the Cornell University historian FredrikLogevall, which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History. It also won the inaugural...
LaFeber, The deadly bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and the 1968 election (2005). FredrikLogevall, "Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam" Presidential Studies Quarterly 34#1 (2004)...
original on January 5, 2013. Retrieved October 28, 2009. Moïse 1996. FredrikLogevall, "Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War...
Polska. League of Nations Treaty Series (PDF). Vol. 204. 1941–1943. FredrikLogevall; Kenneth Alan Osgood (July 2010). "The Ghost of Munich: America's Appeasement...
begun. In March 2022, Yale historian Arne Westad and Harvard historian FredrikLogevall in a videotelephony conversation asserted "that the global showdown...
War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by FredrikLogevall, Journal of Vietnamese Studies 11.1 (2016), 147.r Dwyer, Ryle (13 August...
policy decisions. Kennedy historian and foreign relations professor FredrikLogevall believed the book demonstrates JFK's "commitment to an unsentimental...
Prize longlist revealed". National Post. Retrieved August 29, 2014. "FredrikLogevall Wins CFR's 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award for "Embers of War"". Council...
Ian V. Hogg & John S. Weeks. Krause Publications. 2000. pages 93–94 FredrikLogevall, "The Swedish-American conflict over Vietnam", pp. 199–223 in, Walter...
and Policy Making in the Cold War (1993). Mark Atwood Lawrence and FredrikLogevall, eds (2007). The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War...
Central Europe. Spencer C. Tucker 2011, p. 171-172. FredrikLogevall 2012, p. 244-245. FredrikLogevall (2012). Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and...
The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America Finalist 2013 FredrikLogevall Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam...
Stalin in the very first days of the conference." Campbell Craig and FredrikLogevall argue the two bombs were dropped for different reasons: Truman's disinclination...
Lang (1993), only Canadian reporter to die in the War in Afghanistan FredrikLogevall (1981), Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Graham Ludlow (1979), actor...
they are honest about it. After Trump won the nomination, historians FredrikLogevall and Kenneth Osgood noted that, "Hardly a day passes without some columnist...
for that plan. Others, including Pulitzer Prize winning historian FredrikLogevall, have said that "NSAM 263 hardly represented the kind of far-reaching...
Archived 24 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine Mark Atwood Lawrence; FredrikLogevall (2007). The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis...
War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, Mark Atwood Lawrence and FredrikLogevall, Harvard University Press, 27 February 2007 Spector, Ronald H. (1983)...
Mary Beth Norton; Carol Sheriff; David W. Blight; Howard Chudacoff; FredrikLogevall (2011). A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Volume...
bestseller lists, such as David Blight, H. W. Brands, Liza Mundy, FredrikLogevall, and Steve Inskeep; the Notable Louisville Neighborhoods series, a...
stating themes of Russian irredentism and historical revisionism. FredrikLogevall of Harvard University has stated that "In a way, I think history is...
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