About

Robert Dallek is a Professor Emeritus at UCLA, specializing in research related to diplomatic history, foreign policy, and public opinion in the United States. His scholarly work includes a focus on New Deal diplomacy and the role of professional diplomats. Dallek has authored several significant publications, including 'Democrat and Diplomat: The Life of William E. Dodd,' 'Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945,' 'The American Style of Foreign Policy: Cultural Politics and Foreign Affairs,' and a biography of Ronald Reagan titled 'Ronald Reagan: The Politics of Symbolism.' His research has contributed to understanding American perceptions of the Soviet Union, Cold War relations, and key figures in American diplomatic history. Dallek earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1964 and has been involved in academic and public discussions on U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic history.

Research topics

• Political science
• History
• Law
• Economic history
• Art

Selected publications

• The Psychohistory Forum Roundtable on the January 6th Insurrection

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  In our roundtable below, you will find the comments of our psychohistorical colleagues on the January 6th attack on our Constitution and the historical analogies that come to mind. We welcome your thoughts on our Google listserv and for our next issue on the paranoid style in American politics. Our roundtable began here at Dr. Loewenberg’s suggestion.

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• Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House

  The SHAFR Guide Online · 2017-10-02

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• Theodore Roosevelt: Confident Imperialist

  The SHAFR Guide Online · 2017-10-02 · 1 citations

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• The American Style of Foreign Policy: Cultural Politics and Foreign Affairs

  The SHAFR Guide Online · 2017-10-02 · 36 citations

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• Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

  Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2017-11-07 · 4 citations

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  From the acclaimed author of John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, the biography of one of America's greatest presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt. 'Meticulously researched and authoritative, heroically objective and wide-angled ... Roosevelt is with us again in Dallek's outstanding cradle-to-grave study' Douglas Brinkley, Washington Post 'Assuredly the best single-volume Roosevelt biography' Eric Rauchway, The Times Literary Supplement 'Essential ... a master of the presidential biography captures Roosevelt's compassion and sense of solidarity' Greg Grandin, Guardian 'An insightful, incisive and intelligent one-volume work - and a pointed primer on how things in Washington get done. In a period defined by division, Dallek crafts a pointillist portrait of the four-term president, who knew almost intuitively how to reach consensus' Peter M. Gianotti, Newsday

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• The American Style of Foreign Policy: Cultural Politics and Foreign Affairs

  The SHAFR Guide Online · 2017-10-02

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• Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam: The Making of a Tragedy

  The SHAFR Guide Online · 2017-10-02

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• Three Faces of Imperialism: British and American Approaches to Asia and Africa, 1870-1970

  The SHAFR Guide Online · 2017-10-02

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• The American Style of Foreign Policy: Cultural Politics and Foreign Affairs

  The SHAFR Guide Online · 2017-10-02

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• Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932 a•fi 1945 By Robert Dallek

  2013-01-01

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Frequent coauthors

• Akira Iriye

  2 shared

• Lloyd C. Gardner

  2 shared

• Warren I. Cohen

  1 shared

• Ronald H. McDonald

  1 shared

• George Locke

  Federal Government of Germany

  1 shared

• Government In Malaysia

  Federal Government of Germany

  1 shared

• David C. Hendrickson

  1 shared

• Louis Rudolph

  Monash University

  1 shared

Education

• Ph.D., American History

  Yale University

  1966

• B.A., American History

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1962