A Shadow Over the World: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Rise of Fascism, and the Making of America's World War II

William I. Hitchcock is a Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is also the Randolph P. Compton Professor at Miller Center at the University of Virginia. He graduated form Kenyon College in 1986 and earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1994. In his career he taught at Yale for six years and served as Associate Director of show more International Security Studies. He taught at Wellesley College for five years. He went on to serve as Dean and professor of History at Temple University in Philadelphia. In 2010, he became Professor of History at the University of Virginia and joined the Miller Center. His books include, France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Stability in Europe, 1945-1954(1998), From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century. Co-edited with Paul Kennedy (2000), The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945-present (2003), The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe (2008), for which he won the 2009 George Louis Beer Prize, from the American Historical Association, The Human Rights Revolution: An International History, co-edited with Akira Iriye and Petra Goedde (2012); and The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s (2018). (Bowker Author Biography) show less