George C. Herring

George Cyril Herring is an American historian[1] (born January 1, 1936, Blacksburg, VA). He is a graduate of the University of Virginia (1965).

Nominations of awards include: National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction, National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography.

He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada.

Books

• Aid to Russia, 1941-1946: Strategy, Diplomacy, the Origins of the Cold War (Columbia University Press, 1973)
• America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975 (John Wiley and Sons, 1979)
• The Secret Diplomacy of the Vietnam War: The Negotiating Volumes of the Pentagon Papers, editor (University of Texas Press, 1983)
• The Central American Crisis: Sources of Conflict and the Failure of U.S. Policy, co-editor with Kenneth M. Coleman (Scholarly Resources, 1985)
• Modern American Diplomacy co-editor with John M. Carroll (Scholarly Resources, 1986)
• The Pentagon Papers: Abridged Edition, editor (McGraw-Hill, 1993)
• LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War (University of Texas Press, 1994)
• From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 (Oxford University Press, 2008)

References

1. French, Howard W. "Thinking Globally: George C. Herring's 'From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776'".