Arnold A. Offner

Arnold A. Offner is an American historian, and Cornelia F. Hugel Professor of History Emeritus at Lafayette College. He is a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Life

Offner grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a B.A. from Columbia [College, Columbia University|Columbia College] in 1959, and an M.A. in 1960 and Ph.D in 1964 from Indiana University. He taught at Syracuse University, Boston University, and Lafayette College. He has won numerous awards for his scholarship and teaching. He resides in Newton, Massachusetts, with his wife, Ellen.

Works

Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945–1953 Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.,
The Origins of the Second World War: American Foreign Policy and World Politics, 1917–1941, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973.,
, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965; New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.,
Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country Yale University Press, 2018.,

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