Background
William Yandell Elliott was born in 1896 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States.
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- Author books in field of political science, including Pragmatic Revolt on Politics. New British Empire
- Need for Constitutional Reform. Editor, The British Commonwealth at War, 1943.Western Political Heritage (with N. A. McDonald), 1949. American Foreign Policy. Organization and Control, 1952.Political Economy of the Foreign Policy of the United States, 1955. Television’s Impact on American Culture, 1956. Education and Training in the Developing Countries: Foreign Aid, 1966.Co-author: The Idea of Colonialism, 1958. The Secretary of State, 1960. The United States and the United Nations, 1961.
William Yandell Elliott
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Born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, he served as an artillery battery commander in World War I. He attended Vanderbilt University, where he was a member of the group of poets and literary scholars known as the Fugitives. As a Rhodes Scholar, he attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and where amongst others he would meet the poet William Butler Yeats, the Indian nationalist Krishna Menon, and John Marshall Harlan II, a future Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
Career
His dissertation The Pragmatic Revolt in Politics proved influential. He was hired by Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, and he was to remain at Harvard for the next 41 years, during which time he became an advisor to a number of American presidents and presidential candidates, including Al Smith in 1928. He also accompanied Roosevelt to Yalta.
Post-war, Elliott served on the National Security Council. Though he was a script-writer for Republican Richard Nixon's 1960 election run, the Democratic presidents Kennedy and Johnson retained him as a State Department advisor. Elliott became dean of the Harvard Summer School, where he would establish the Harvard International Seminar, directed by his student and protégé Henry Kissinger.
Many attendees went on to became heads of state or government in their respective countries, including Yigal Allon in Israel, Yasuhiro Nakasone in Japan, and Pierre Trudeau in Canada.
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Other Work
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Author books in field of political science, including Pragmatic Revolt on Politics. New British Empire
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Need for Constitutional Reform. Editor, The British Commonwealth at War, 1943.Western Political Heritage (with N. A. McDonald), 1949. American Foreign Policy. Organization and Control, 1952.Political Economy of the Foreign Policy of the United States, 1955. Television’s Impact on American Culture, 1956. Education and Training in the Developing Countries: Foreign Aid, 1966.Co-author: The Idea of Colonialism, 1958. The Secretary of State, 1960. The United States and the United Nations, 1961.
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Membership
He was a member of Roosevelt's Brain Trust in the 1930s and '40s, and Vice President of the War Production Board in Charge of Civilian Requirements during World War II.
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American