William Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College. His book, McNamara at War: A New History, coauthored with Philip Taubman, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton & Co. in September 2025. He is the author of the Gorbachev: His Life and Times (W.W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His biography, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography in 2004. Also the author of Stalin’s American Policy: From Entente to Détente to Cold War, and co-author with his wife, retired Amherst College professor of Russian Jane Taubman, of Moscow Spring, William Taubman was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in 2009 and chaired the Academic Advisory Committee of the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. He has received the Karel Kramar Medal of the Czech Republic and the Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation.
More information about his academic interests and activities can be found on Amherst College’s faculty page.
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