Arthur Herman

Arthur Herman, who received his doctorate in history at John Hopkins, is on the board of the Scottish Arts Council. Former associate professor of history at George Mason University, he is the Coordinator of the Western Heritage Program at the Smithsonian Institution, and a consulting historical editor for Time-Life Books. Arthur Herman is the first American to be named to the Scottish Arts Council.

THE CAVE AND THE LIGHT: Plato versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization (Random House, 2013)

FREEDOM'S FORGE: How American Business Produced Victory in World War Two (Random House, 2012)

GANDHI & CHURCHILL: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age (Bantam Books, 2008)

HOW THE SCOTS INVENTED THE MODERN WORLD: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It (Crown, 2001)

THE IDEA OF DECLINE IN WESTERN HISTORY (The Free Press, 1997)

JOSEPH MCCARTHY: Re-Examining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator (The Free Press, 1999)

TO RULE THE WAVES: How the British Navy Changed the Modern World (HarperCollins, 2004)

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