Institution: | THOMAS G. PATERSON is professor of history at the University of Connecticut and a past president of SHAFR. His recent books include Meeting the Communist Threat: Truman to Reagan;(1988;paperback, 1989). Kennedy's Quest for Victory (ed., 1989). a book of original essays on American foreign relations in the early 1960s, and A People and a Nation (coauthor, 1990). He also organized and introduced the symposium on "Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations," in the Journal of American History (1990). |