David Fromkin


David Henry Fromkin was an American author, lawyer, and historian, best known for his historical account on the Middle East, A Peace to End All Peace, in which he recounts the role European powers played between 1914 and 1922 in creating the modern Middle East. The book was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Fromkin has written seven books in total, with his most recent in 2007, The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners

Life

Fromkin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 27, 1932.
He died on June 11, 2017 in Manhattan, New York City due to heart failure as his nephew Daniel Soyer said, He was 84.

Career

A graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Law School, he was Professor Emeritus of History and International Relations, and Law at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, where he was also the Director of The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Long-Range Future. He was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Before his career as a historian, Fromkin was an attorney and political adviser. In the 1972 Democratic primary campaign, he served as a foreign-policy adviser to candidate Hubert Humphrey. As an attorney, he served as both prosecutor and defense counsel in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, then as an associate at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
He retired as professor emeritus in 2013.

Criticism

criticized Fromkin for his portrayal of the US-backed NATO intervention in the Kosovo War.

Selected bibliography