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Michael Beschloss Beschloss at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2017

Born Michael Richard Beschloss 30 November 1955 (age 62) Chicago, Illinois Occupation Historian Nationality American Alma mater Williams College Subject United States presidency Spouse Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss

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Michael Richard Beschloss, Chicago (Illinois), V.S., 30 november 1955 is een Amerikaanse historicus. Als specialist in het presidentschap van de V.S. is hij de auteur van negen boeken. Zijn volgene boek, Presidents of War, verschijnt begin oktober 2018 bij Crown/Penguin Random House.

Michael Beschloss with Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, Lincoln Memorial, March 18, 2015 (British Embassy US)

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Awards 4 Personal life 5 Bibliography 6 Reception 7 References 8 External links

Early life

Beschloss werd geboren in Chicago, groeide op in Flossmoor (Illinois) studeerde aan de Eaglebrook School te Andover, het Williams College en Harvard University. Hij koos politieke wetenschappen tot hoofdvak, waarvoor hij cum laude slaagde. Hij behaalde een MBA aan Harvard Business School te Boston.

Career

Beschloss has been a frequent commentator on the PBS NewsHour and is the NBC News Presidential Historian. He is a trustee of the White House Historical Association and the National Archives Foundation and he also sits on the board of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. He has been a trustee of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello), the Urban Institute, the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. He also sits on the advisory board to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and was a member of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships. He has held appointments in history at the Smithsonian Institution,[8] a Senior Associate Member at St. Antony's College (University of Oxford),[8] a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University Russian Research Center,[8] a Senior Fellow of the Annenberg Foundation, and a Montgomery Fellow and Dorsett Fellow at Dartmouth College.

Beschloss has appeared on The Daily Show in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2010. He was portrayed by Chris Kattan on NBC's Saturday Night Live on February 14, 1998.[9]

He started a Twitter account, @BeschlossDC, in October 2012.[10][11] It appears on Time magazine's list of "Best Twitter Feeds of 2013".[12] He also contributes columns on history to The New York Times.[13]

Beschloss is also the editor of Washington by Meg Greenfield (2001) and Essays in Honor of James MacGregor Burns (with Thomas Cronin) (1988).

Onderscheidingen

In 2005 ontving Beschloss de Emmy Award voor Nieuws en Documentaires voor de documentaire Decisions That Shook the World op Discovery Channel, die hij regisseerde. the Harry S. Truman Public Service Award, the Ambassador Book Prize

He has also received the Williams College Bicentennial Medal,[14] the State of Illinois's Order of Lincoln (the State's Highest Honor), , the Rutgers University Living History Award, the New York State Archives History Award and the Founders Award of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Hij verkreeg eredoctoraten van Lafayette College, Williams College, St. Mary's College van Maryland, Saint Peter's College, Governors State University en Allegheny College.

Michael Beschloss was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State’s highest honor) door de Gouverneur van Illinois in 2004 op het gebied van Communicatie en Educatie.

Privé

Beschloss is getrouwd met de Iraans-Amerikaanse Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss, die presidente en CEO is van de Rock Creek Group, een hedge-fonds te Washington, D.C., voormalig thesaurier en hoofd investeerder van de Wereld Bank, en huidig curator van de Ford Foundation en de Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Het paar is adviserend bestuursleden van Resources for Inner City Children. Beschloss en zijn vrouw waren verscheidene keren bij bijzondere officiele gelegenheden gasten van de presidenten Bill Clinton en George W. Bush en echtgenotes tijdens een diner op het Witte Huis.

Bibliografie

Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance (1980); started as Beschloss's senior honors thesis at Williams College Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair (1986) Eisenhower: A Centennial Life (1990) The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963 (1991) At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War (1993); with Strobe Talbott. Taking Charge (1997) and Reaching for Glory (2001), edited transcriptions of Lyndon B. Johnson's conversations, as captured by his taping system, with historical annotation and commentary. A third Johnson volume is forthcoming. The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 (2002) was a New York Times bestseller for several months and was Amazon's bestselling history book of the year. Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How they Changed America, 1789-1989 (2007) was a New York Times bestseller for several months and was a #1 Washington Post bestseller. Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (2011), introduced and annotated by Beschloss, was a #1 New York Times bestseller. Reception President Bill Clinton told People in December 1997 that the first audiobook he ever listened to was Taking Charge by Michael Beschloss.[20] In Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack, President George W. Bush is quoted as telling the author Elie Wiesel in February 2003, "I read your views on Auschwitz in Michael Beschloss' book", referring to The Conquerors.[21] Bush also refers to Beschloss' book "Presidential Courage" in his 2010 memoir Decision Points.[22]

John Frankenheimer's last film, Path to War (HBO, 2002), starring Donald Sutherland and Michael Gambon, was based in part on Beschloss' two books on Lyndon B. Johnson.