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Roger Morris

Writer / Historian
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Speaking at the 'Surviving Victory' Conference in Washington DC


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Strategic Demands of the 21st Century: A New Vision for a New World / PDF


Roger Morris / Bio (excerpt 2016)

Born and raised in the Midwest, Roger Morris holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard, served in the United States Foreign Service, on the White House Staff, and on the Senior Staff of the National Security Council under both Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, until resigning over the invasion of Cambodia.

As an NSC official, Morris was Deputy Director of Policy Planning as well as a senior officer dealing with a wide variety of issues and areas from Africa, the Middle East and South Asia to Sino-Soviet affairs and the UN. One of National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger's two-person Special Projects Staff, he was intimately involved in the first highly secret peace negotiations with North Vietnam to secure a U.S. withdrawal and an end to the war in Indochina prior to the Cambodian invasion in 1970.

After resigning from the White House and before turning to independent writing full time, he was a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate and Director of Humanitarian Policy Studies for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he co-authored two seminal, news-making and premonitory Carnegie books, Passing By, a 1973 work on the genocide in Burundi and Rwanda, and Disaster in the Desert, a 1974 study of the failures of international relief programs.

Roger Morris is the author of several critically acclaimed books on American politics, including Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician, 1913-1952, winner of the National Book Award Silver Medal, finalist for the National Critics Circle Award in Biography, and a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year," and Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America, a highly-praised and instant best-seller on the New York Times and other lists as well as another Times “Notable Book.” He co-authored with Sally Denton The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, a history of the city as it silhouettes American corruption nationwide and internationally, hailed by The Los Angeles Times as "one of the most important non-fiction books published in the U.S. in a half-century," by the New York Times Book Review as "magisterial," a New York Times “Notable Book". (Review excerpts attached.)

From work growing out of a Harper’s commission, he is completing Between the Graves — a history of American policy and covert intervention in South Asia and the Middle East over the past half century, to be published by Alfred Knopf and excerpted in Harper’s. He is also at work for Knopf on Kindred Rivals: America, Russia and Their Failed Ideals, a comparative history of the inner politics of the United States and Soviet Russia in a major reinterpretation of their competition and its impact on the 21st-century.

His other books include Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy, Haig: The General's Progress, The Devil’s Butcher Shop: The New Mexico Prison Uprising, and The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency.

He has been a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellow, twice a University of Washington Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow as well as a Fellow of the Society of American Historians and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Among numerous honors and prizes, as leader of an inter-media team investigation, he has twice won the Investigative Reporters and Editors' National Award for Distinguished Investigative Journalism, including IRE's coveted Gold Medal for "the finest investigative reporting across all media nationwide." His articles on national security for the Arizona Republic and columns and reporting on local affairs in New Mexico newspapers were nominated repeatedly for the Pulitzer Prize, and he has received the International Relations Councils’ Distinguished Award for International Understanding.

He has taught at Harvard, the City University of New York, the University of New Mexico, and the University of Washington, lectured on campuses and spoken throughout the U.S., been a Ford Foundation Fellow at the British Museum, a Fellow of the Russian Research Center at Harvard, and for an academic year was an official Exchange Scholar at Moscow State University in the then-USSR, where he was the first American to study at an Institute of the Academy of Sciences.

He has written for Harper’s, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Columbia Journalism Review, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and numerous other newspapers and magazines, including regular book reviews and op-ed articles for The Globe and Mail of Canada and feature articles in Architectural Digest and other periodicals. In the 1990’s, he syndicated columns, investigative reports and a radio commentary across New Mexico, and was host and co-producer of a weekly public affairs program and numerous specials for public television in Albuquerque-Santa Fe. He has been elected to national boards of Common Cause, OXFAM, and the National Council for International Visitors.

His study on national security policy, Strategic Demands of the 21st Century: New Vision for a New World, co-authored with Steven Schmidt, was published by the Green Party Institute in print and online in 2005. The 2006 documentary on US policy in Africa, Guns, Greed and Genocide, in which he played a major role, was an award-winner at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. His 2007 profiles of Defense Secretaries Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates for TomDispatch.com gained worldwide attention. In 2009 the New York Times chose him as one of five distinguished American historians to write the paper’s special 100 Days Blog, setting the Obama Administration in the perspective of earlier presidencies.

He lives on San Juan Island in the Pacific Northwest, where he is completing Kindred Rivals and The Next America, a reflection on U.S. politics and governance.


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