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made its way into space first because it was the world's first technocracy, which he defines as "the institutionalization of technological change for state purpose". He also examined the growth of a
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McDougall and his wife, the former Jonna Van Zanten have two children, Angela and Christopher, and reside in
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Walter A. McDougall, Department of History. Profile on Penn Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
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books.google.com Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners by Elizabeth A. Brennan and Elizabeth C. Clarage
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France's Rhineland Diplomacy, 1914–1924: The Last Bid for a Balance of Power in Europe
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Let the Sea Make a Noise: A History of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur
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Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter With the World Since 1776
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McDougall is the author of many books on history. In 1986 he received the
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University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
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for 13 years before moving to Pennsylvania. He is a senior fellow at the
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of technology in the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In 2016, he published
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Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585–1828
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Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829–1877
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He was a professor at the 863:University of Pennsylvania historians 503: 453: 273: 259:, chess, baseball, bridge, golf and 868:People from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 201:The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy. 13: 913:20th-century American male writers 888:21st-century American male writers 858:University of Pennsylvania faculty 843:Pulitzer Prize for History winners 71:University of California, Berkeley 14: 924: 898:Foreign Policy Research Institute 893:Fellows of the Earhart Foundation 878:American male non-fiction writers 479: 454:Kazin, Michael (March 23, 2008). 240:fraternity (Sigma chapter) and a 75:Foreign Policy Research Institute 883:21st-century American historians 873:20th-century American historians 746: 160: 140: 120: 97: 833:Historians of the United States 447: 419: 394: 371: 359:Johns Hopkins University Press 347: 307: 221:in 1997. In 2004 he published 209:(1978). In 1984 he co-edited 148:Freedom Just Around the Corner 16:American historian (born 1946) 1: 266: 166:Presentation by McDougall on 146:Presentation by McDougall on 128:Promised Land, Crusader State 126:Presentation by McDougall on 108:Promised Land, Crusader State 59:National Air and Space Museum 903:Historians from Pennsylvania 848:University of Chicago alumni 106:interview with McDougall on 7: 205:McDougall's first book was 33:McDougall graduated with a 22:(born December 3, 1946, in 10: 929: 908:Historians from California 290:University of Pennsylvania 183:Pulitzer Prize for History 28:University of Pennsylvania 755: 744: 558:(completed and edited by 542: 404:Let the Sea Make a Noise" 159: 139: 119: 96: 91: 838:Historians of technology 382:Let the Sea Make a Noise 84: 249:Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 63:Smithsonian Institution 828:Amherst College alumni 668:Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 568:Alfred D. Chandler Jr. 456:"Clash of the Zealots" 77:and also an editor of 65:. He also received an 53:, and a fellow at the 20:Walter Allan McDougall 331:"Walter A. McDougall" 286:"Walter A. McDougall" 213:. He also published 47:University of Chicago 692:Doris Kearns Goodwin 624:Walter A. McDougall 576:Don E. Fehrenbacher 560:Don E. Fehrenbacher 432:The Washington Post 238:Delta Kappa Epsilon 168:Throes of Democracy 648:James M. McPherson 592:Lawrence A. Cremin 461:The New York Times 335:Ashland University 211:The Grenada Papers 185:for his 1985 book 67:Earhart Foundation 51:Hoover Institution 805: 804: 676:Mark E. Neely Jr. 388:Los Angeles Times 197:political economy 179: 178: 920: 798: 791: 784: 777: 770: 763: 750: 739: 736:David M. Kennedy 731: 724:Edwin G. Burrows 719: 711: 703: 695: 687: 679: 671: 663: 655: 643: 635: 627: 619: 616:Thomas K. McCraw 611: 603: 600:C. Vann Woodward 595: 587: 579: 571: 563: 551: 524: 517: 510: 501: 500: 473: 472: 470: 468: 451: 445: 444: 442: 440: 435:. 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Washington, D.C.
University of Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Arts
Amherst College
Vietnam
University of Chicago
Hoover Institution
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution
Earhart Foundation
University of California, Berkeley
Foreign Policy Research Institute
Booknotes interview with McDougall on Promised Land, Crusader State, June 15, 1997
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Presentation by McDougall on Promised Land, Crusader State, May 8, 1997
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Presentation by McDougall on Freedom Just Around the Corner, May 13, 2004
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Presentation by McDougall on Throes of Democracy, April 24, 2008
C-SPAN
Pulitzer Prize for History
...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
Soviet Union
political economy
Civil War
Delta Kappa Epsilon
Vietnam
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
J.S. Bach

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