Arthur L. Herman

Arthur L. Herman (born 1956) is an American Ph.D., author and lecturer. His father had been a professor and had once spent a semester at Edinburgh University. He generally employs the 19th century, Great Man perspective in his work, which attributes human events and their outcomes to the singular efforts of great men (and occasionally women).

Biography

In the late 1980s Herman taught at Sewanee: The University of the South; in the 1990s he taught history at George Mason University, Georgetown and The Catholic University of America.

Herman has also appeared at the Smithsonian's Campus on the Mall program. Herman's 1984 dissertation at the Johns Hopkins University dealt with the political thought of early 17th-century French Huguenots. 

Herman is a contributor to National Review and Commentary magazines among others.

His 2001 book on the Scottish Enlightenment, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, was a New York Times bestseller. His most recent work is Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age.

Works

• The Idea Of Decline In Western History, Free Press, 1997-01-08 ISBN 978-0684827919.
• Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator, Free Press, 1999-12-02 ISBN 978-0684836256.
• How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It, Three Rivers Press 2002-09-24 ISBN 978-0609809990.
• To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World, HarperCollins, 2004-10-26 ISBN 978-0060534240.
• Gandhi and Churchill:The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, Bantam, 2008-04-29 ISBN 978-0553804638.

External links

• Booknotes interview with Herman on Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator, February 6, 2000.