David Fromkin

David Fromkin is a noted author, lawyer, and historian, best known for his historical account on the Middle East, A Peace to End All Peace (1989), 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.

A graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Law School, he is University Professor, Professor of History, International Relations, and Law at Boston University, where he was also the Director of The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Long-Range Future. Fromkin also sits on the editorial board of the Middle East Quarterly, a publication of the Middle East Forum think tank. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Books in order of publication:

The Question of Government: An Inquiry into the Breakdown of Modern Political Systems (1975)

The Independence of Nations (1981)

A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914–1922 (1989) 

In the Time of the Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur, The Generation That Changed America’s Role in the World (1995) 

The Way of the World (1998)

Kosovo Crossing: The Reality of American Intervention in the Balkans, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. (2002) 

Europe’s Last Summer: Who started the Great War in 1914? (2004) 

“The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners” (2007)