Paul Seabury (May 6, 1923 – October 17, 1990) was an American political scientist and foreign policy consultant.

Life

Born in Hempstead, Long Island, Seabury was a native New Yorker. He graduated from

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in 1946, and from

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with a Ph.D. He taught at the

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starting in 1953. Once a national official of the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, after the tumultuous era of student revolt at Berkeley, he became a leading spokesman for the first American neo-conservatives. He was part of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, which fostered intelligence studies in American universities. He served on the

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during the

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. He married Marie-Anne Phelps; they had two sons. His papers are held at the

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. He died in

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. Seabury was a great player of croquet, and edited a book on the game for

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Awards

* 1964

Bancroft Prize The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, d ...

* 1961-62

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

Works

"The Banality of Liberalism", ''The New York Review of Books'', November 11, 1965
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"Trendier than thou: the many temptations of the Episcopal Church", ''Harper's Magazine'', 1978
* ''The Wilhelmstrasse'', University of California Press, 1954 * ''Power, Freedom, and Diplomacy'', Random House, 1963 * ''The Balance of Power,'' Chandler Pub. Co., 1965 * ''The Rise and Decline of the Cold War,'' Basic Books, 1967 * * * (2nd edition Brassey's, 2006, )

References

Swarthmore College alumni Columbia University alumni University of California, Berkeley faculty 1923 births 1990 deaths 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers People from Hempstead (village), New York Historians from New York (state) Bancroft Prize winners Historians from California 20th-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub