Kenneth Osgood is associate professor of history and director of the Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency at Florida Atlantic University.  He is the author of Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad (2006), which won the Herbert Hoover Book Award, and editor of The Cold War after Stalin’s Death: A Missed Opportunity for Peace? (with Klaus Larres, 2006).  The recipient of three teaching awards, Ken was the Visiting Mary Ball Washington Chair at University College Dublin in 2006-7.  He has received fellowships from the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and from the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation. He has served on SHAFR council (2000-2) and sits on the Holt-Hogan committee.  Ken also serves on the editorial board for Palgrave’s History of the Media series, and is editor of the Larkin Series on the American Presidency at the University Press of Florida. Ken received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, where he worked with Wilson Miscamble, and his M.A./Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he worked with Fredrik Logevall and Tsuyoshi Hasegawa.