Richard Aldous

Richard Aldous is a British historian and biographer.

Born in Essex, Aldous was educated at the University of Cambridge. In 2006 he was made head of school at the department of history and archives in UCD.[1] Aldous has written books about Malcolm Sargent, Harold Macmillan, a twin-biography about Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone, a study of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher's political relationship, a book on JFK's treasury secretary C. Douglas Dillon, as well as a biography of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Since 2010 he is the Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Culture at Bard College in New York. He is also a Contributing Editor for The American Interest, a founding member of the editorial team at American Purpose magazine, and host of the Bookstack podcast.

Works

  • Tunes Of Glory: The Life of Malcolm Sargent. Hutchinson, 2001, ISBN 1-4481-3694-6.
  • Macmillan, Eisenhower And The Cold War, 2005, ISBN 1-85182-923-7.
  • The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs Disraeli. Hutchinson, 2006, ISBN 1-4481-3817-5.
  • Great Irish Speeches. Quercus, 2007, ISBN 1-84724-658-3.
  • Reagan and Thatcher. The Difficult Relationship. Hutchinson 2012, ISBN 0-09-192608-4.
  • Tony Ryan: Ireland's Aviator. Gill & Macmillan, 2013, ISBN 978-0717157815.
  • Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian. W. W. Norton & Company, New York 2017, ISBN 0-393-24470-9.
  • The Dillon Era: Douglas Dillon in the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Administration. McGill–Queen's University Press, 2023, ISBN 978-0228018872.
  • Harold Macmillan and Britain's World Role (edited with Sabine Lee). Macmillan, 1995, ISBN 978-0333630532.
  • Harold Macmillan: Aspects of a Political Life (edited with Sabine Lee). Macmillan, 1999, ISBN 978-0333713730.
  • Diplomacy & Statecraft, Volume 33, Issue 1, 2022 (edited with Nigel Ashton): David Reynolds: Studies in Competitive Co-operation.

References

  1. "the-versatile-historian". irishtimes.com. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
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