Thomas Alan Schwartz is a Professor of History at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He grew up in Rochester, New York, and studied at Columbia, Oxford and Harvard Universities, where he also taught briefly. He has been at Vanderbilt since 1990, and is the author of America’s Germany: John J. McCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany (1991) and Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam (2003), both with Harvard University Press. He is the co-editor with Matthias Schulz of The Strained Alliance: Transatlantic Relations in the 1970s for Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). He has held fellowships from the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Social Science Research Center, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University, and the Center for European Integration Studies, Bonn, Germany. He was also the recipient of a NATO Fellowship in 1997-98. In 1992 America’s Germany received both the Harry S. Truman Book Award and SHAFR’s Stuart Bernath Prize. He has also received the Stuart Bernath Lecture Prize, and the Volkswagon Fellowship from German Historical Institute. He is currently working on a biography of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and a short history of the Cold War.