Arthur Herman is working on his sixth book. His most recent work, Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed An Empire and Forged Our Age, was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and chosen for The Washington Post's list of the Best Books of 2008. The paperback edition release date is May 2009. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World (2001) and To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (2005), which was nominated for the UK's prestigious Mountbatten Prize.
He comments frequently on military matters and foreign policy for Commentary, The Wall Street Journal, and Wall Street Journal Asia in addition to the New York Post, and on the air for Fox News Channel and CNN's Lou Dobbs.
Dr Herman's books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, German, French, and Portuguese.A former professor of history at Georgetown and George Mason Universities, he received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University.
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