What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism
Victor Davis Hanson was educated at the University of California,
Santa Cruz, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens,
and received his Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University. He
farmed full-time for five years before returning to academia in
1984 to initiate a Classics program at California State University,
Fresno. Currently, he is Professor of Classics there and
Coordinator of the Classical Studies Program.
Hanson has written articles, editorials, and reviews for the New
York Times, Wall Street Journal, Daily Telegraph, International
Herald Tribune, American Heritage, City Journal, American
Spectator, National Review, Policy Review, The Wilson Quarterly,
The Weekly Standard, and Washington Times, and has been interviewed
on numerous occasions on National Public Radio and the BBC, and
appeared with David Gergen on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He
writes a biweekly column about contemporary culture and military
history for National Review Online.
He is also the author of some eighty scholarly articles, book
reviews, and newspaper editorials on Greek, agrarian, and military
history, and contemporary culture. He has written or edited eleven
books, including The Western Way of War, The Soul of Battle, and
Carnage and Culture. He lives and works with his wife and three
children on their forty-acre tree and vine farm near Selma,
California, where he was born in 1953.
“Bold and politically incorrect, An Autumn of War is like a breath
of fresh air in pointing to the real causes of terrorist outrages
and the need for a decisive response.” —Richard Pipes, author of
The Russian Revolution
“Victor Hanson is a national treasure. No one has written with such
great prescience about the present war or more accurately predicted
the course of events, on the fighting front, at home, and around
the world. His wisdom arises from a deep knowledge and
understanding of history, ancient and modern. His uncanny accuracy
in prediction comes from a full and clear grasp of the facts and
the application to them of an informed understanding of human
nature and of the character of war. All this he presents in clear,
vigorous, and eloquent prose. Every American needs to learn from
him." —Donald Kagan, author of On the Origins of War and the
Preservation of Peace
“Together with John Keegan, [Hanson] is our most interesting
historian of war.” —Jean Bethke Elshtain, author of Women and War
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