Background
William Smaldone was born on July 7, 1958, in Brooklyn, New York, to Gerald Smaldone, an employee of the Internal Revenue Service, and Theresa Petrolino Smaldone, a telephone company worker.
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In 1980, William Smaldone received a Bachelor of Science from State University of New York College at Brockport and a Master of Arts in 1983.
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Smaldone received a Ph.D. from State University of New York at Binghamton in 1990.
(Until his death in a Gestapo prison cell, Rudolf Hilferdi...)
Until his death in a Gestapo prison cell, Rudolf Hilferding was one of Europe's most prominent socialist theorists and politicians. A leading economic thinker in the European socialist movement and an important politician in the German Social Democratic Party, he served as Weimar finance minister at the height of the inflation of 1923 and again at the onset of the depression in 1928. At a time when Germany faced one economic and political crisis after another, he led social democracy's efforts to strengthen the republic and to achieve its socialist objectives.
https://www.amazon.com/Rudolf-Hilferding-Tragedy-German-Democrat/dp/0875802362/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(The stories of the individual men and women who led Germa...)
The stories of the individual men and women who led German Social Democracy's failed efforts to fend off the Nazi onslaught in 1933 have largely been lost in the wake of the cataclysmic war, the Holocaust, and the division of Europe that followed Hitler's victory. Confronting Hitler recovers their stories and places them at center stage. In a series of biographical essays focusing on the experiences of ten leading Social Democratic activists, Smaldone examines their defeat in 1933 from the perspective of individuals enmeshed in political struggle.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002HWSQ7I/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(This accessible text offers a concise but comprehensive i...)
This accessible text offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to European socialism, which arose in the maelstrom of the industrial and democratic revolutions launched in the eighteenth century. Striving for sweeping social, economic, cultural, and political change, socialists were a diverse lot. However, they were united by principles asserting the social and political equality of all people, ideas that won the adherence of millions and struck fear in the hearts of their numerous opponents.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DTDW8AA/?tag=2022091-20
2013
William Smaldone was born on July 7, 1958, in Brooklyn, New York, to Gerald Smaldone, an employee of the Internal Revenue Service, and Theresa Petrolino Smaldone, a telephone company worker.
In 1980, William Smaldone received a Bachelor of Science from State University of New York College at Brockport and a Master of Arts in 1983. He also received a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1990.
From 1989 to 1991, William Smaldone worked as a visiting assistant professor at Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mahwah, New Jersey, and then, in 1991, he became an associate professor of history at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. Smaldone's work Rudolf Hilferding: The Tragedy of a German Social Democrat (1998) examines the life of one of German Social Democracy's leading economic and political thinkers from the turn of the century until the collapse of the Weimar Republic in 1933. His second book, Confronting Hitler: German Social Democrats in Defense of the Weimar Republic, 1929-1933 (2009), treats the failure of Germany's Social Democratic leadership in its struggle against Adolf Hitler's National Socialist movement. In 2013 he published European Socialism: A Concise History. More recently, with Mark Blum of the University of Kentucky, Louisville, he has published Austro-Marxism: The Ideology of Unity, a two-volume collection of documents on one of twentieth-century European socialism's most important intellectual currents. He is now translating and editing Rudolf Hilferding's correspondence with Karl Kautsky, Leon Trotsky, and Paul Hertz.
(The stories of the individual men and women who led Germa...)
2008(This accessible text offers a concise but comprehensive i...)
2013(Until his death in a Gestapo prison cell, Rudolf Hilferdi...)
1998In the mid-1990s, Smaldone initially became active in Oregon's local politics as a member of the Socialist Party of Oregon and in 1998 was elected to the Salem City Council where he served on the Budget Committee and numerous commissions.
William was a member of the American Historical Association, German Studies Association and German History Society.
On May 18, 1985, William Smaldone married Jennifer Jopp, a historian. They have two children: Sarah and Emily.