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Jean Edward Smith
Professor Emeritus
Senior Scholar, Department of History, Columbia University
Biography
Jean Edward Smith is professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, after having served in the Department of Political Science and its precursor, the Department of Political Economy, here for thirty-five years. After leaving Toronto, he served as the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University in West Virginia and as a faculty member of the Master of American History and Government program at Ashland University. A distinguished biographer, he won the 2008 Francis Parkman Prize and was a finalist in 2002 for a Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of numerous articles and books on US foreign policy and the U.S. constitution, including The Defense of Berlin (1964), Germany Beyond the Wall (1969); the Papers of General Lucius Clay (1974); The Constitution and U.S. Foreign Policy (1988); Lucius D. Clay: An American Life (1990); George Bush’s War (1992), and two textbooks: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Debated (1988), The Conduct of U.S. Foreign Policy (1989), and John Marshall: Definer of a Nation (1996). After a year at Princeton and twelve at Marshall, Jean Smith joins the History Department at Columbia as senior scholar in residence. Jean’s biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eisenhower in War and Peace, is finished and will be published by Random House late this year. At Columbia, Jean will write Dark Decade, a history of the presidential years of George W. Bush.