About

Jeffrey Engel has authored or edited ten books on American foreign policy, including:

  • Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy(Harvard University Press, 2007), which received the Paul Birdsall Prize from the American Historical Association
  • Local Consequences of the Global Cold War (Stanford University Press and the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2008)
  • The China Diary of George H.W. Bush: The Making of a Global President(Princeton University Press, 2008)
  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989 (Oxford University Press, 2009)
  • Rethinking Leadership and “Whole of Government” National Security Reform, with Joseph R. Cerami (Strategic Studies Institute, 2010)
  • Into the Desert: Reflections on the Gulf War (Oxford University Press, 2012)
  • American in the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror (Princeton, 2014, with Mark Lawrence and Andrew Preston)
  • The Four Freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea (Oxford 2016)
  • When Life Strikes the President: Scandal, Death and Illness in the White House (Oxford University Press, 2017)
  • When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and End of the Cold War (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017).

A frequent media commentator on past and current events, his scholarly and popular articles have appeared in such journals as Diplomatic HistoryDiplomacy & StatecraftProject SyndicatePerspectives on HistoryEnterprise & SocietyThe International JournalAir & Space MagazineThe Los Angeles Times; and The Dallas Morning News.

He is currently writing Seeking Monsters to Destroy: How America Goes to War, From Jefferson to Obama (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Contact: jaengel@smu.edu