David Fromkin is a noted author

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, lawyer

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, and historian

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, best known for his historical account on the Middle East

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, A Peace to End All Peace

A Peace to End All Peace

A Peace to End All Peace, The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East is a history written by David Fromkin. The book, which was a Pulitzer prize finalist, describes the events leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and the drastic...

(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. Fromkin has written seven books in total, with his most recent in 2007, The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners

A graduate of the University of Chicago

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 and the University of Chicago Law School

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, he is University Professor, Professor of History

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, International Relations

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, and Law at Boston University

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, 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

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, a publication of the Middle East Forum

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 think tank. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations

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Before his career as a historian, Prof. Fromkin was an attorney and political adviser. In the 1972 Democratic

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 primary

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 campaign, he served as a foreign-policy adviser to candidate Hubert Humphrey

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. As an attorney, he served as both prosecutor and defense counsel in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps

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, then as an associate at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

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Selected bibliography

• A Peace to End All Peace
  A Peace to End All Peace
  A Peace to End All Peace, The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East is a history written by David Fromkin. The book, which was a Pulitzer prize finalist, describes the events leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and the drastic...
  
  : Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922 (1989) ISBN 0-8050-0857-8, ISBN 0-8050-6884-8 (paperback)
• “Britain, France, and the Diplomatic Agreements.” In The Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921, ed. Reeva Spector Simon and Eleanor H. Tejirian, 134-145. New York: Columbia University press, 2004.
• Europe's Last Summer: Who started the Great War in 1914? (2004) ISBN 0-375-41156-9, ISBN 0-375-72575-X (paperback)
• In the Time of the Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur, The Generation That Changed America's Role in the World (1995) ISBN 0-394-58901-7, ISBN 0-679-76728-2 (paperback)
• The Independence of Nations (1981)
• The Importance of T. E. Lawrence. From The New Criterion Vol. 10, No. 1, September 1991.
• The Question of Government: An Inquiry into the Breakdown of Modern Political Systems (1975)
• "The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners" (2007)
• The Way of the World (1998)

External links

• Boston University faculty: David Fromkin