John Milton Cooper Jr.
John Milton Cooper Jr. (born 1940) is an American historian, author, and educator. His specialization is late 19th- and early 20th-century American Diplomatic History. Cooper is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[1]
Cooper was educated at Princeton University (AB summa cum laude. 1961) and Columbia University (Ph.D., 1968). He taught history at Wellesley College (1965-1970) and U of Wisconsin--Madison since 1970, with an endowed chair after 1987. Among his awards are Guggenheim Fellowship, 1979–80; and Fulbright Professorship in United States History, Moscow State University, 1987.[2] His most recent book, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, was published in 2009. It is described as "the first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades."[3] The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[4]
Cooper has argued:
- Working on the League [of Nations] fight, I could not avoid giving Wilson a prominent role. No matter what might have happened under another president, there would not have been anything remotely resembling this fight without him. I had learned from studying him in comparison with TR [Theodore Roosevelt] how bold a leader Wilson was—far bolder than his rival, public images to the contrary notwithstanding. From his Princeton presidency onward, Wilson had mounted audacious initiatives. Intervention in the war, the Fourteen Points, and hammering together the League were his boldest ones in foreign policy or any sphere. Likewise, the League fight would have turned out differently without him. The spiteful deadlock between him and the senators led by Lodge owed more to Wilson than anyone else. Good will was lacking on the other side, too, but Wilson’s refusal to compromise did doom League membership. Cruel as it is to say, he was guilty of this ‘supreme infanticide.’[5]
Selected bibliography
- Cooper Jr, John Milton, ed. Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: progressivism, internationalism, war, and peace (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2008).
- Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920 (WW Norton & Company, 1990).
- The warrior and the priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt (Harvard University Press, 1983).
- Walter Hines Page: The Southerner as American, 1855-1918 (University of North Carolina Press, 1977)
- "The Command of Gold Reversed: American Loans to Britain, 1915-1917." Pacific Historical Review 45.2 (1976): 209-230. online
- "The British Response to the House-Grey Memorandum: New Evidence and New Questions." Journal of American History 59.4 (1973): 958-966. online
- The vanity of power: American isolationism and the First World War, 1914-1917 (Greenwood Press, 1969).
- "William E. Borah, Political Thespian," Pacific Northwest Quarterly56 (October, 1965), pp 145-158, awarded Charles M Gates Memorial Prize
- "Progressivism and American Foreign Policy: A Reconsideration," Mid-America 61 (October, 1969), 260-277
References
- ^ "University of Wisconsin–Madison". Archived from the original on 2017-05-02. Retrieved 2015-07-05.
- ^ See C.V.
- ^ Random House
- ^ Biography or Autobiography
- ^ Cooper, 2020.
Further reading
- John Milton Cooper, Jr., "A Non-Pilgrim’s Progress" H-DIPLO (March 20, 2020) online
External links
- CURRICULUM VITAE
- Faculty page at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Author interview at the Pritzker Military Library on February 25, 2010
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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