Gabriel Kolko

Gabriel Kolko
Born(1932-08-17)August 17, 1932
Paterson, New Jersey, United States[1]
DiedMay 19, 2014(2014-05-19) (aged 81)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
OccupationHistorian, writer, educator
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
EducationKent State University (BA; 1954)
University of Wisconsin (MS; 1955)
Harvard University (PhD; 1962)
Period1955–2014 (writer)
GenreHistory
SubjectProgressive Era, Vietnam War, Corporate liberalism
Literary movementHistorical revisionism
Notable worksThe Triumph of Conservatism, The Limits of Power (co-author w/ Joyce Kolko)
Notable awardsTransportation History Prize from Organization of American Historians, 1963; Social Sciences Research Council fellow, 1963–64; Guggenheim fellow, 1966–67; American Council of Learned Societies fellow, 1971–72; Killam fellow, 1974–75, 1982–84; Royal Society of Canada fellow.
Spouse
Joyce Manning
(m. 1955; died 2012)

Gabriel Morris Kolko (August 17, 1932 – May 19, 2014) was an American historian.[2] His research interests included American capitalism and political history, the Progressive Era, and U.S. foreign policy in the 20th century.[3] One of the best-known revisionist historians to write about the Cold War,[4] he was also credited as "an incisive critic of the Progressive Era and its relationship to the American empire."[5][6] U.S. historian Paul Buhle summarized Kolko's career when he described him as "a major theorist of what came to be called Corporate Liberalism...[and] a very major historian of the Vietnam War and its assorted war crimes."[7]

  1. ^ Langer, Emily (June 17, 2014). "Gabriel Kolko, historian who skewered U.S. economic and foreign policies, dies at 81". washingtonpost.com. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  2. ^ McKean, Matthew (June 13, 2014). "Gabriel Kolko: A leftist academic who saw things differently". theglobeandmail.com. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  3. ^ Diggins 1977, p. 578.
  4. ^ Linden 1996, p. 68
  5. ^ Dylan Hales (December 1, 2008). "Left Turn Ahead". theamericanconservative.com. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  6. ^ Jesse Walker (May 20, 2014). "Gabriel Kolko, RIP". reason.com. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  7. ^ Editorial (May 20, 2014). "Gabriel Kolko 1932–2014". comehomeamerica.us. Retrieved December 8, 2014.