John W. Jeffries

John W. Jeffries is Professor Emeritus of History and Dean Emeritus of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland Baltimore County Born in Oxford, Mississippi, he grew up in Annapolis, Maryland, earned his BA from Harvard, and, after five years as an officer in the U.S. mehr anzeigen Navy, his PhD from Yale. In addition to numerous articles on the politics and policies of the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency, he is the author of Testing the Roosevelt Coalition: Connecticut Society and Politics in the Era of World War II and A Third Term for FDR: The Election of 1940, and editor of the 1929-1945 volume of the Encyclopedia of American History. weniger anzeigen