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John Patrick Diggins

Born April 1, 1935
Presently Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York; has taught at Princeton, Univ. of California, Irvine, and Cambridge; held the Chair in American Civilization at the Ecole des Hautes Etude, Paris; delivered the Commonwealth Lecture, Univ. of London, and the Trilling Seminar, Columbia Univ.

Has received fellowships and research awards from the American Philosophical Society, American Council of Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller and Guggenheim foundations. Prizes from the American Studies Association and American Historical Association, Italian Historical Society, and nominee for the National Book Award and winner of the National Teacher Award.

Among places where he has lectured are Oxford, Berlin, Florence, Mexico City, New Delhi, Vienna, Hokkaido, Oslo, Montreal, Budapest, John Hopkins, Harvard, Stanford, Univ. of Chicago, and Yale Law School.

Has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, New Republic, Nation, National Review, La Revue Tocqueville, Il Messaggero, London Review of Books, Wilson Quarterly, National Interest, American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of Contemporary History, Partisan Review, Raritan, Univ. of Chicago Law Review, American Political Science Review, History & Theory.

Consultant on films and documentaries: "Between the Wars"; "Reds"; "John Dos Passos"; "The Greenwich Village Rebellion"; " Emma Goldman"; "The New York Intellectuals"; " The Future of the American left"; "Il Duce, Fascismo e American" (Italian Television); "American Pragmatism and Abstract Expressionism" (French radio); "The Canon in Political Philosophy" (C-Span); "Tocqueville in America" (Book Notes); "Abraham Lincoln" (C-Span).

His books, which have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese include:

Mussolini and Facism: The View from America; Up From Communism: Conservative Odysseys in American Intellectual History; The Bard of Savagery: Thorstein Veblen and Modern Social Theory; The Problem of Authority in America (editor); The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest, and the Foundations of Liberalism; The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960; The Rise and Fall of the American Left; The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crises of Knowledge and Authority; The Liberal Persuasion: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and the Challenge of the American Past (editor); Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy; On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History. Forthcoming titles are: Ronald Regan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History; Desire Under Democracy: Eugene O'Neill's America.