Paul Jankowski (born July 8, 1950) is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

and the Raymond Ginger Professor of History Emeritus at

Brandeis University Brandeis University () is a Private university, private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is located within the Greater Boston area. Founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian, non-sectarian, coeducational university, Bra ...

. Raised in Europe and the United States, Jankowski attended

Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded in 1263 by nobleman John I de Balliol, it has a claim to be the oldest college in Oxford and the English-speaking world. With a governing body of a master and aro ...

for both his undergraduate and graduate degrees, completing his doctoral dissertation on

Simon Sabiani Simon Pierre Sabiani (14 May 1888 – 29 September 1956) was a French businessman and politician. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1928 to 1936. Early life Simon Pierre Sabiani was born in 1888 in Casamaccioli, Corsica, Fr ...

and the rise of

fascism Fascism ( ) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement. It is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hie ...

and the French

Parti Populaire Français The French Popular Party (, PPF) was a French fascist and anti-semitic political party led by Jacques Doriot before and during World War II. It is generally regarded as the most collaborationist party of France. Formation and early y ...

Marseille Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the ...

. Jankowski specializes in the history of modern France and

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, the

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, and the history of

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in the

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. In addition to his study of Sabiani, he has published books on the Stavisky affair,

political scandals in France This is a list of major political scandals in France. Until 1958 *1789: '' Réveillon riots'' - popular revolt from April 26- 28, in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Paris. Considered a precursor to the Storming of the Bastille and the French Revolu ...

, and the

Battle of Verdun The Battle of Verdun ( ; ) was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front (World War I), Western Front in French Third Republic, France. The battle was the longest of the First World War and took place on the hills north ...

. His latest book, ''All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War'', is a

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of several events and developments, primarily in Europe and the United States, between

November 1932 The following events occurred in November 1932: November 1, 1932 (Tuesday) *The Liberal Party won mid-term parliamentary elections in Cuba. *Police in London clashed with National Hunger Marchers trying to present a petition to parliament aga ...

and April 1933, including

Adolf Hitler's rise to power The rise to power of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, began in the newly established Weimar Republic in September 1919, when Hitler joined the ''German Workers' Party, Deutsche Arbeiterpartei'' (DAP; German Workers' Par ...

in Germany, the

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Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served ...

as president of the United States, and the first Japanese attacks against China.

Publications

*''Communism and Collaboration: Simon Sabiani and Politics in Marseille 1919–1944'' (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989; ). *''Cette vilaine affaire Stavisky. Histoire d'un scandale politique'' (Paris: Editions Artheme Fayard, 2000). *''Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue'' (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002; ). *''Shades of Indignation. Political Scandals in France, Past and present''. (Oxford and New York: Berghahn, 2008; ). *''Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War'' (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014; ).Laurier Centre
2015 *''All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War'' (New York: Harper, 2020; ).

External links

* Jankowski'

in ''The New York Times'' * "The Myths of Verdun": , via the official channel of the

National World War I Museum and Memorial The National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri was opened in 1926 as the Liberty Memorial. In 2004, it was designated by the United States Congress as the country's official war memorial and museum dedicated to World Wa ...

* "Paul Jankowski on ''All Against All''," interview with Andrew Keen of KeenOn, on Now TV.

References

21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers 1950 births Living people Brandeis University faculty American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub