Gabriel Kolko
Gabriel Morris Kolko (August 17, 1932 – May 19, 2014) was an American historian. His research interests included American capitalism and political history, the Progressive Era, and U.S. foreign policy in the 20th century. One of the best-known revisionist historians to write about the Cold War, he was also credited as "an incisive critic of the Progressive Era and its relationship to the American empire." U.S. historian Paul Buhle summarized Kolko's career when he described him as "a major theorist of what came to be called Corporate Liberalism...[and] a very major historian of the Vietnam War and its assorted war crimes."
Gabriel Kolko | |
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| Born | August 17, 1932 Paterson, New Jersey, United States |
| Died | May 19, 2014 (aged 81) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Occupation | Historian, writer, educator |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Kent State University (BA; 1954) University of Wisconsin (MS; 1955) Harvard University (PhD; 1962) |
| Period | 1955–2014 (writer) |
| Genre | History |
| Subject | Progressive Era, Vietnam War, Corporate liberalism |
| Literary movement | Historical revisionism |
| Notable works | The Triumph of Conservatism, The Limits of Power (co-author w/ Joyce Kolko) |
| Notable awards | Transportation History Prize from Organization of American Historians, 1963; Social Sciences Research Council fellow, 1963–64; Guggenheim fellow, 1966–67; American Council of Learned Societies fellow, 1971–72; Killam fellow, 1974–75, 1982–84; Royal Society of Canada fellow. |
| Spouse |
Joyce Manning
(m. 1955; died 2012) |
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