Background
William Beatty Pickett was born on March 12, 1940, in Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States, to Walter Nathan Pickett, an optometrist, and Amy Beatty Pickett, a high school teacher. William has one sister, Mary Anne.
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In 1962, Pickett received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.
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In 1968, Pickett received a Master of Arts degree from Indiana University - Bloomington, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1974 from the same university.
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William Beatty Pickett was born on March 12, 1940, in Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States, to Walter Nathan Pickett, an optometrist, and Amy Beatty Pickett, a high school teacher. William has one sister, Mary Anne.
In 1962, Pickett received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. In 1968, he also received a Master of Arts degree from Indiana University - Bloomington and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1974 from the same university.
William served as a lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve from 1962 to 1966. Then, he served at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana; Nanzan University and Nagoya University, Japan; the University Maryland, Seoul, Republic of Korea; and American University (now the American University of Central Asia) in Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek. He is the editor of Technology at the Turning Point (1978) and author of Homer E. Capehart: A Senator's Life (1990); Dwight David Eisenhower and American Power (1995); To Be the Best: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 1974-1999 (1999); and Eisenhower's Decision to Run: Presidential Politics and Cold War Strategy (2000). His current research is for a book entitled Eisenhower and Summersby: The Supreme Commander and his Wartime Aide, A Story of Duty, Gossip and Presidential Politics.
Voice of America aired his commentary on the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and CSPAN televised his lecture at the Eisenhower Library on the writing of Eisenhower's Decision to Run. He was a featured speaker at the George F. Kennan Centennial Conference at Princeton University in February 2004 and edited the monograph: George F. Kennan and the Origins of Eisenhower's New Look: An Oral History of Project Solarium. He is also the author of "New Look or Containment? George F. Kennan and the Making of Republican National Security Strategy" (in the Princeton University Archives) and "Why Eisenhower Became President," in the proceedings of a conference entitled: "Eisenhower's National Security Policy," (Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia, 2005).
William was co-chair of the Rose-Hulman American Revolution Bicentennial Conference on American Technology - Past, Present and Future. It featured presentations by professors Thomas P. Hughes, Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Melvin Kranzberg, Paul Horwitz, Joseph Weizenbaum and Victor Ferkiss. He was co-chair of an international conference on the Internet and society, "The World Wide Web at Ten: The Dream and the Reality," at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2004 and in 2006 co-founded the Web History Center.
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1990Writers who have influenced Pickett include Richard Rhodes, who wrote the epic accounts on the making of the atomic and hydrogen bombs, David Remnick, whose book on the fall of the Soviet Union is a classic, and Thomas Friedman - especially his book titled From Beirut to Jerusalem, on the origins of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
Quotations: "My work reflects the influence of my graduate mentor, the distinguished American historian, Robert H. Ferrell, professor emeritus at Indiana University, one of the profession's most prolific teachers, researchers, editors and authors. He taught, among other things, how to write a sprightly narrative, how to establish the right distance or level of generality, the crucial importance of thesis statement for the work and topic sentences that relate to the thesis for each paragraph, the necessity of active voice, the destructive potential of adjectives and adverbs, and, above all, the importance of a dialogue with the reader."
Pickett is a member of the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Society for Military History, Royal Asiatic Society and Indiana Historical Society.
Underlying all his interests and activities has been his fascination with the art of the written word in historical analysis, biography, memoirs, novels and poetry. Pickett also appreciates the visual arts, especially the work of French and American impressionist and representational painters. He also enjoys listening to Dixieland, jug-band, bluegrass, folk and rock music as well as to the works of the European and Russian classical composers.
Pickett finds time for cross-country automobile travel, the wonders of nature, smart-phone photography and sailing - whether on the lakes of Minnesota or the expansive salt waters of Puget Sound, Florida, and the Caribbean. Most of all, he enjoys being with his family.
On August 29, 1964, Pickett married Janet Elizabeth Hollingsworth. They have two children: Robert Matthew and Jeffrey Michael.