Robert Donaldson

Gary Donaldson is professor of history at Xavier University in New Orleans. He also holds the John D. LaFarge Endowed Professorship in Social Justice. During the 1991–92 academic year, and again in 1997–98, he served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in China, teaching twentieth-century American foreign policy and politics at Beijing Foreign Studies University. His books include Truman Defeats Dewey (1998); America at War Since 1945: Foreign Policy and Politics in Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War (1996); and Abundance and Anxiety: America, 1945–1960 (1997).