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Andrew Preston (historian)

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Andrew Preston is a Canadian historian, who won the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for his book Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy.[1]

A reader in American history at the University of Cambridge, Preston is originally from Brockville, Ontario and was educated at the University of Toronto.Andrew Preston also was educated at the London School of Economics and then earned his doctorate at Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge University. He also taught at the University of Victoria and was a post doctoral educator at Yale University. [2] Preston is also a fellow at Clare College, where he acts as a director of studies in history.

His prior publications include The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam (2006) and Nixon in the World: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1969-1977 (2008).

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