Autor/-in: Walter A. McDougall

WALTER A. McDOUGALL is a professor of history and the Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a senior fellow at Philadelphia's Foreign Policy Research Institute, where he edited Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs. He is a prolific author whose works include Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History 1585-1828. , Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877. , and most recently The Tragedy of U. S. Foreign Policy: How American Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest. His book. the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age. won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for History.