Alan Axelrod (born 1952) is an American author of history, business and management books. As of October 2018, he had written more than 150 books. Axelrod resides in

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. Axelrod received his doctorate in English from the

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in 1979,Lyons Press author page
Retrieved November 29, 2018. specializing in the literature and culture of

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and the early republic of the

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. He has taught at

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and

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, worked as a publishing executive, and has been a consultant to historical museums, cultural institutions, television's ''Civil War Journal'', the

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, and the

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. Axelrod was a featured speaker at the 2004 Conference on Excellence in Government in

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. He has also been a speaker at the Leadership Institute of Columbia College (South Carolina) in

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, and at the 2005 Annual Conference of the Goizueta School of Business, at

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in Atlanta, Georgia. He also spoke at the 2014 annual conference of Ecopetrol in Bogota, Colombia.

Publications

* ''Lost Destiny: Joe Kennedy Jr. and the Doomed WWII Mission to Save London'' (2015) Palgrave Macmillan * '' Napoleon: CEO'' (2011) Sterling (Hardcover), (ebook) * '' Gandhi: CEO'' (2010) Sterling * ''The Complete Idiot's Guide to the New World Order'' (2010) * ''Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps'' (2010) (Published in hardcover 2007) The Lyons Press * ''The Real History of the

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: A New Look at the Past'' (2009) * '' Winston Churchill: CEO'' (2009) * * ''Selling the Great War: the making of American Propaganda'' (March 2009) * '' Edison on Innovation: 102 Lessons in Creativity for Business and Beyond'' (2008) * ''What Every American Should Know about American History'' (2008) * '' Blooding at Great Meadows: Young George Washington and the Battle That Shaped the Man'' (2008) * '' Profiles in Folly'': ''History's worst decisions and why they went wrong'' (2008) * ''The Complete Idiot's Guide to Astronomy, The Complete Idiot's Guide Series'' (2008) * ''The Real History of World War II: A New Look at the Past'' (2008) * * ''The Real History of the American Revolution: A new look at the past'' (2007) * ''The Complete Idiot's Guide to Forensics, The Complete Idiot's Guide Series'' (2007) * * '' Eisenhower On Leadership: Ike's Enduring Lessons in Total Victory Management,'' (2006) Jossey-Bass * ''American History ASAP'' (2003) * '' Elizabeth I: CEO'' (2000) Prentice Hall * '' Patton On Leadership: Strategic Lessons for Corporate Warfare,'' (1999) Prentice Hall * ''The Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Revolution'', The Complete Idiot's Guide Series (1999) * ''The Encyclopedia of Wars'' (1997). co-authored with Charles Phillips
''Encyclopedia of Wars'' – 3 Volume Set (Facts on File Library of World History) on Amazon.com. * ''International Encyclopedia of Secret Societies and Fraternal Orders'' New York;

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, 1997 * ''The War Between the Spies: A History of Espionage During the

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'' (1992)

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* ''Chronicle of the

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: From Colonial Times to Wounded Knee'' (1990) * ''

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: An American Tale'' (1983) * ''Lincoln's Last Night:

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, and the Last 36 Hours Before the Assassination'' * ''How America Won World War I: The U.S. Military Victory in the Great War – The Causes, The Course and The Consequences''. Guilford, Connecticut: Globe Pequot, 2018. . * ''The

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: 1876-1912 Overture To The American Century'' (2017) .

Notes

External links

A Chat with Alan Axelrod
Frank R. Shaw with bibliography to 2004 * Georgia Writers Associatio
entry for Alan Axelrod
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