Gil Troy

Gil Troy is an American academic. Troy is Professor of History at McGill University in Montreal and a Visiting Scholar affiliated with the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington.

His latest book "Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents" was just published this June by Basic Books. This spring the University Press of Kansas released the paperback edition of his book "Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady", having been published in hard cover in 2006. Troy is the author of "Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s", published in 2005 by Princeton University Press and released in paperback in 2007. It has been called a "masterly study of Ronald Reagan's presidency - the best single book we have on his administration to date." His two other works in American history were "Mr. and Mrs. President: From the Trumans to the Clintons" (2000) - first published by The Free Press as "Affairs of State: The Rise and Rejection of the Presidential Couple Since World War II" and "See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate", originally published by the Free Press in 1991, then released in an updated paperback edition by Harvard University Press in 1997.

Troy is also the author of "Why I Am a Zionist: Israel, Jewish Identity and the Challenges of Today". The book has been hailed as a "must read,” and the most persuasive presentation of the Zionist case "in decades." It has been released in a third expanded and updated edition, having sold over 15,000 copies.

Troy is a native of Queens, New York. He received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. After receiving his Ph.D in History in 1988, he taught History and Literature at Harvard for two years. In September 1990, Troy became an assistant professor of history at McGill University. In 1995, Troy was promoted to Associate Professor and granted tenure. From 1997 to 1998 he served as chairman of McGill's history department. In March, 1999 he was promoted to Full Professor. Maclean's magazine has repeatedly labeled him one of McGill's "Popular Profs" and the History News Network designated him one of its first 12 "Top Young Historians."

Professor Troy serves on advisory panel of scholars for the History News Network, an independent non-profit corporation hosted by George Mason University, including also other academic historians Pauline Maier and Joyce Appleby.

Bibliography

*"Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents" 2008
*"Why I Am a Zionist: Israel, Jewish Identity, and the Challenges of Today". (2006). 3rd ed. 2001; Montreal: Bronfman Center for Jewish Education, 2006.
*"Hillary Clinton: Polarizing First Lady". (2006). Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 2006.
*"Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s". (2005). Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005.
*"Mr. and Mrs. President: From the Trumans to the Clintons". (2000). 2nd rev. ed. Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 2000. (Paperback ed.) Originally entitled "Affairs of State: The Rise and Rejection of the Presidential Couple Since World War II".
*"Affairs of State: The Rise and Rejection of the Presidential Couple Since World War II". Lawrence: UP of Kansas. (1997). New York: Free Press, 1997.
*"See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate". (1991 & 1996). Rev. & exp. ed. 1991; Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1996.

External links

* [http://leadingfromthecenter.com Blog for Gil Troy's latest Book] , Leading from the Center
* [http://giltroy.com/leadingfromthecenter/index.htm Website for Gil Troy's latest Book] , Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents
* [http://www.giltroy.wordpress.com/ Gil Troy's News Blog latest info] .
* [http://www.giltroy.com/ Gil Troy's Official Website] .
* [http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/history/faculty/troy.htm Gil Troy faculty listing] , in the Department of History, McGill University.
*Troy, Gil. [http://www.cerium.ca/article2219.html How Conservative Leaders and Personalities Shaped America’s Culture] . Paper presented on " [http://www.cerium.ca/article2219.html The Culture-Politics Nexus] " at the " [http://www.cerium.ca/article2211.html Conservative Predominance in the U.S.] A Moment or an Era?" Annual Spring Conference. Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de l'Université de Montréal (CERIUM) and Chaire d’études politiques et économiques américaines de l’Université de Montréal (CEPEA), Université de Montréal. 30 March 2006. (Incl. hyperlinks to Windows Media Player video and online texts.) Accessed January 7, 2007.
* [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/08/1414201 Norman Finkelstein vs. Gil Troy On Jimmy Carter's Controversial Book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid"] -Transcript of debate on "Pacifica Radio", January 8, 2007