Brian VanDeMark, Associate Professor

U.S. Diplomatic and Political History
 

Email:  vandemar@usna.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. - University of California, Los Angeles
• M.A. - University of Texas
• B.A. - University of Texas

Major Publications:

American Sheikhs: Two Families, Four Generations, and the Story of America's Influence in the Middle East (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2012)

Pandora's Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb (paperback ed., New York: Little Brown, Back Bay Books, 2005).

Robert S. McNamara with Brian VanDeMark, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (New York: Times Books, 1995; paperback ed., New York: Vintage Books, 1996).

Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991; paperback ed., 1995).

Research assistant to Clark Clifford with Richard Holbrooke, Counsel to the President: A Memoir (New York: Random house, 1991; paperback ed., New York: Anchor Books, 1992).

Current Research Interests:

America in the Middle East, American cultural influence abroad, social and political effects of education