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Ph.D. Georgetown University

 American History: History of Ideas

Areas of Specialization:

18th & early 19th Century American

America in a Global Setting 1945-Present

U.S. Intellectual

Major Publications:

Edmund Randolph: A Biography. New York: Macmillan, 1975.

Payton Randolph: 1721-1775 One Who Presided. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1982.

America and the Multinational Corporation: The History of a Troubled Partnership 1945-1990. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1992.

"Cosmopolitanism: The American Perspective"

This study starts from the premise that the traditional theme of Ameria's historic isolationism seriously distorts the essential characteristics of America's development. This work seeks to demonstrate that there has always been an awareness in America that the United States was a part of the global community and that this awareness had as much to do with defining America as its identification with democracy or its sense of exceptionalism. The study attempts to explore the various ways in which the American people were engaged with the rest of the world.