Richard Aldous is a British historian and biographer based at Bard College, New York, where he is Eugene Meyer Distinguished Professor of History. Born in Essex, Aldous was educated at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

. In 2006 he was made Head of the School of History and Archives in University College Dublin. Aldous has written books about

Malcolm Sargent Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent (29 April 1895 – 3 October 1967) was an English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works. The musical ensembles with which he was associated include ...

Harold Macmillan Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986), was a British statesman and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Nickn ...

, a twin-biography of

Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a ...

and

William Gladstone William Ewart Gladstone ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British politican, starting as Conservative MP for Newark and later becoming the leader of the Liberal Party. In a career lasting over 60 years, he was Prime Minister ...

, a study of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher's political relationship, a book on JFK's treasury secretary C. Douglas Dillon, as well as a biography of

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. ( ; born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual. The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and a ...

Since 2010 he is the Eugene Meyer Professor at

Bard College Bard College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains within the Hudson River Historic District ...

, where he has served as Chair of the Faculty Senate. He is a Contributing Editor for

The American Interest ''The American Interest'' (''AI'') was a bimonthly magazine founded in 2005, focusing primarily on foreign policy, international affairs, global economics, and military matters. History The magazine was founded in 2005 by a number of member ...

, a founding member of the editorial team at ''American Purpose'' magazine, and host of the Bookstack podcast. He has written for newspapers such as the ''Wall Street Journal'', the ''Washington Post'', and the ''New York Times'', and appeared on CNN, Fox News, PBS, RTÉ and the BBC. He was the Spectrum News/NY1 Royal Expert for coverage of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and the coronation of King Charles III.

Works

* ''Tunes Of Glory: The Life of Malcolm Sargent''. Hutchinson, 2001, . * ''Macmillan, Eisenhower And The Cold War'', Four Courts Press, 2005, . * ''The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs Disraeli''. Hutchinson/W. W. Norton, 2006, . * ''Great Irish Speeches''. Quercus, 2007, . * ''Reagan and Thatcher. The Difficult Relationship''. Hutchinson/W. W. Norton, 2012, . * ''Tony Ryan: Ireland's Aviator''. Gill & Macmillan, 2013, . * ''Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian''. W. W. Norton, 2017, . * ''The Dillon Era: Douglas Dillon in the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Administration''. McGill–Queen's University Press, 2023, . * ''Harold Macmillan and Britain's World Role'' (edited with Sabine Lee). Macmillan, 1995, . * ''Harold Macmillan: Aspects of a Political Life'' (edited with Sabine Lee). Macmillan, 1999, . * ''Diplomacy & Statecraft'', Volume 33, Issue 1, 2022 (edited with Nigel Ashton): ''David Reynolds: Studies in Competitive Co-operation''.

References

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