Andrew Malcolm Preston (born 1973) is a Canadian historian, who won the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for his book Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy. He is the W.L. Lyons Brown Jr. Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy and Statecraft at the University of Virginia.
Books in order of publication:
The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam (2006)
Nixon in the World: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1969–1977 (2008)
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy – 2013
American Foreign Relations: A Very Short Introduction (2019)
Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security – 2025
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