Arthur Herman

Arthur Herman is the author of To Rule the Waves, The Scottish Enlightenment, The Idea of Decline in Western History and Joseph McCarthy. He has been a professor of history at Georgetown University, Catholic University, George Mason University and the University of the South. He served as the coordinator of the Western Heritage Program at the Smithsonian and has been the recipient of Fulbright, Mellon and Newcombe Foundation grants. He lives in Virginia.

Books by Arthur Herman

The Cave and the Light

Arthur Herman

For classical enthusiasts and fans of popular intellectual histories such as The Metaphysical Club and From Dawn to Decadence, The Cave and the Light is an enthralling history of the rivalry and rival ideas of two men that made Western civilization what it is today: Plato and Aristotle.

Freedom's Forge

Arthur Herman

For admirers of books by Erik Larson and Stephen Ambrose, the story of how American big business set out to build the weapons and create the industrial muscle to arm the Allies and defeat the Axis in World War II, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Ghandi & Churchill.

Gandhi and Churchill

Arthur Herman

The epic story of the rivalry that shaped the 20th century and poses questions for the 21st.