Arthur Herman

Senior Research Fellow

Biography

Arthur Herman is a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute. He brings 35 years of experience as Pulitzer Prize Finalist historian and biographer, New York Times bestselling author, defense and tech policy analyst, and a national security official.

Dr. Herman is the author of ten books, including the New York Times Best Seller How the Scots Invented the Modern World, the Pulitzer Prize Finalist Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II (which the Economist named one of its Best Books of 2012), To Rule the Waves, Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior, and 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder.

He is a frequent contributor to Commentary, Mosaic, National Review, the New York Post, and the Wall Street Journal. He was also the first non-British citizen to be named to the Scottish Arts Council from 2007 to 2009. He received his BA from the University of Minnesota and PhD from Johns Hopkins University in history and classics.

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