Institution: | ANNA KASTEN NELSON completed the Ph.D. at George Washington Uni- versity, where her dissertation on Polk's secret diplomacy during the Mexican War was written under the direction of Howard M. Merriman. She has pub- lished articles on the Mexican War period and on the National Security Council. Adjunct associate professor of history at George Washington, she is now completing a larger study of the role of the NSC in the decision-making process from 1947 to 1960. |