Pulitzer Prize for History
1 appearances
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Edition 95 (2013) Winner
Fredrik Logevall
ふれどりっく・ろぐゔぁる
Furedorikku Roguvāru
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1963 （Stockholm, Sweden）
- Nationality
- Sweden, United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Stockholm, Sweden → Västerås, Sweden → Vancouver, Canada → Santa Barbara, United States → Cornell University, United States → Harvard University, United States
Career
- Occupations
- historian, university professor, educator
- Active Years
- 1990-
- Affiliations
- Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Memberships
- Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (former president)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Fraser University | — | History | BA | — | Canada |
| University of Oregon | — | History | MA | — | United States |
| Yale University | — | U.S. Foreign Relations History | PhD | — | United States |
Simon Fraser University
History
Degree:
BA
Country:
Canada
University of Oregon
History
Degree:
MA
Country:
United States
Yale University
U.S. Foreign Relations History
Degree:
PhD
Country:
United States
Studied under Gaddis Smith and Paul Kennedy
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Pulitzer Prize for History | Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam | — | Columbia University | 受賞 |
| 2013 | Francis Parkman Prize | Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam | — | Society of American Historians | 受賞 |
| 2013 | Arthur Ross Book Award | Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam | — | Council on Foreign Relations | 受賞 |
| 2013 | American Library in Paris Book Award | Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam | — | American Library in Paris | 受賞 |
| 2020 | Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography | JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 | — | Society of Authors | 受賞 |
Pulitzer Prize for History
2013
Work:
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam
Organization:
Columbia University
Result:
受賞
Francis Parkman Prize
2013
Work:
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam
Organization:
Society of American Historians
Result:
受賞
Arthur Ross Book Award
2013
Work:
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam
Organization:
Council on Foreign Relations
Result:
受賞
American Library in Paris Book Award
2013
Work:
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam
Organization:
American Library in Paris
Result:
受賞
Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography
2020
Work:
JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
Organization:
Society of Authors
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Cundill History Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 6 (2013) Winner
Works
Major Works
JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
2020 BiographyA biography covering John F. Kennedy's early life from 1917 to 1956.
American politicsforeign policyKennedy family
Adaptations
- [TV series] Kennedy
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam
2012 HistoryHistory of the fall of French Indochina and the making of America's Vietnam War.
Vietnam WarCold Warimperialism
Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam
1999 HistoryAnalysis of the escalation of the Vietnam War.
Vietnam WarUS foreign policy
Bibliography
- JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
- Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
- A People and A Nation: A History of the United States
- America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity
- Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969-1977
- The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis
- Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
- Terrorism and 9/11: A Reader
- The Origins of the Vietnam War
- Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam
Legacy
Renowned expert on US foreign policy, particularly Vietnam War and Cold War era. Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard professor.
Academic Societies
- Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
In Popular Culture
- Executive producer for Netflix adaptation of his JFK biography
Trivia
- Swedish-born, raised in Canada, active in the US as a historian.
- Contributes essays and reviews to The New York Times, Washington Post, etc.