Background
Widenor, William Cramer was born on December 15, 1937 in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Thornton Cramer and Florence Rebecca (Freeman) Widenor.
(Henry Cabot Lodge has often been depicted as an almost on...)
Henry Cabot Lodge has often been depicted as an almost one-dimensional figure, a man whose actions were dictated entirely by personal vindictiveness and intense political partisanship. This intellectual biography traces the evolution of Lodge's thinking about foreign policy and relates his political stands to his ideas. Professor Widenor shows that Lodge held and acted on a fairly consistent set of beliefs concerning America's role in the world. Those beliefs, which had their origins in Lodge's Federalist sympathies and which the author dubs "the Rooseveltian solution," had a strong idealistic component-a conclusion that invalidates the usual distinction between a "realistic" Lodge and an "idealistic" Wilson. No student of American foreign policy, whether "Wilsonian" or "Rooseveltian" in sympathy, will be able to view either the debate over American entry into World War I or the struggle over the League of Nations in quite the same light after reading this book.
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Widenor, William Cramer was born on December 15, 1937 in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Thornton Cramer and Florence Rebecca (Freeman) Widenor.
AB, Princeton University, 1959; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1969; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1975.
Foreign service officer, unites states department State, Washington, 1960-1968; professor of history, University of Illinois, Urbana, since 1975; department chairman, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1985-1989.
(Henry Cabot Lodge has often been depicted as an almost on...)
Member American History Association, Organization American Historians (Frederick Jackson Turner prize 1981), Society for Historians American Foreign Relations, Society for Study Internationalism (governing council since 1985).
Married Mary Helen Barrett, December 27, 1964 (divorced September 1975). Children: Geoffrey, Victoria.