Education
Toll received a Bachelor of Arts in history from Georgetown University in 1989, and a masters degree in public policy (Master in Public Policy) from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1995.
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Ian Toll
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He lives in San Francisco. Toll is the author of Navy. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942.
And The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944.
The latter two titles are the first two volumes of a nonfiction trilogy about the Pacific War. Earlier in his career, he was a political aide and speechwriter to United States. Senator Paul Sarbanes and New York Lieutenant Governor Stan Lundine.
Subsequently, Toll was an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and an equity research analyst at three investment banks, covering communications, software, and e-commerce stocks.
Achievements
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Six Frigates was the 2007 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature and the William E. Colby Military Writers Award. Pacific Crucible received the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction in 2012. The Conquering Tide was a New York Times bestseller and was selected for that newspaper"s "Editors" Choice" list.
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Awards
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Six Frigates was the 2007 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature and the William E. Colby Military Writers Award. Pacific Crucible received the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction in 2012. The Conquering Tide was a New York Times bestseller and was selected for that newspaper's "Editors' Choice" list.Six Frigates was the 2007 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature and the William E. Colby Military Writers Award. Pacific Crucible received the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction in 2012. The Conquering Tide was a New York Times bestseller and was selected for that newspaper's "Editors' Choice" list.