LARRY BERMAN
Selected Publications and Awards
Current Position:
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, Ca. 95616-8682
TEL: 530-752-3076
[email protected]
http://ps.ucdavis.edu/People/faculty/lsberman/
Director UC Davis Washington Program
1608 Rhode Island Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20036
Teaching and Research Interests:
The American Presidency; American National Institutions and Politics; Presidential Decision
Making Processes
Awards, Grants and Fellowships:
University of California, Davis Faculty Research Lecturer, 2010
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research, 2010
Hooper Research Grant, Naval History and Heritage Command, Department of the Navy. 2010
Richard E. Neustadt Book Award, Special Citation American Political Science Association, 2002
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship, 1998-99
Rockefeller Foundation Residency Fellowship for Bellagio, Italy. 1998
Outstanding Mentor of Women in Political Science, Women’s Caucus for Political Science, 1996
Gerald R. Ford Library Research Grant, 1994, 1998
Bernath Lecture Prize, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, 1993
Carnegie Corporation, Political-Military Interventions in Contemporary World Politics, 1990-91
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Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Political-Military Interventions in Contemporary
World Politics, 1989-1990; 1990-1991
Richard E. Neustadt Book Award, American Political Science Association, co-recipients,1990
Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, The Media and Future of American Democracy, 1990
L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation, The Media and Future of American Democracy,
1990
John M. Olin Foundation, The Legacy of the Reagan Presidency, 1988
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, The Legacy of the Reagan Presidency, 1988
Smith Richardson Foundation, The Legacy of the Reagan Presidency, 1988
The Bicentennial Swedish-American Exchange Fund, 1986
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1985
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1984-85
Russell Sage Foundation Research Grant, 1980-81
American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1981
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library Research Grant, 1975-76, 1978, 1985
National Science Foundation Grant for Dissertation Research, 1976
Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Research Grant, 1975-76
Harry S. Truman Library Institute Research Grant, 1975-76
Selected Publications:
Books:
Perfect Spy: The Extraordinary Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter &
Vietnamese Communist Agent. Smithsonian Press-Harper Collins, 2007. Paperback April 2008.
Vietnamese language edition published by Vietnam News Agency Publishers, 2007/2008.
www.larrybermanperfectspy.com
The Art of Political Leadership: Essays in Honor of Fred I. Greenstein. Ed. Rowman &
Littlefield, 2005.
No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam. The Free Press, 2001.
Paperback by Touchstone Books, Simon & Schuster, 2002; Vietnamese language edition,
Viet Tide,2003. Special Citation from 2001 Richard E. Neustadt Award book award
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committee for contribution to research and scholarship in the field of the American
Presidency.
Approaching Democracy, co-authored with Bruce Murphy, 6th edition. Prentice-Hall, 1996, 1999,
2001, 2003, 2006, 2009.
Foreign Military Intervention: The Dynamics of Protracted Conflict, co-author and editor with
Ariel Levite and Bruce Jentleson; Columbia University Press, 1992.
Looking Back on the Reagan Presidency, ed.,The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam. W. W. Norton, 1989.
How Presidents Test Reality: Decisions on Vietnam, 1954 and 1965, co-collaborator with authors
Fred Greenstein and John Burke; Russell Sage, 1989. Winner of the 1990 Richard E.
Neustadt Award for the best book published in 1989 that contributed most to research and
scholarship in the field of the American Presidency.
The New American Presidency. Little, Brown and Co., 1987.
Planning a Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam. W. W. Norton, 1982.
The Office of Management and Budget and the Presidency, 1921-1979. Princeton University
Press, 1979.
Evolution of the Modern Presidency: A Bibliographical Survey. American Enterprise Press, 1977
(with Fred Greenstein and Alvin Felzenberg).
Articles and Selected Essays:
“Secret European Initiates During the Nixon Years: No Closer to Peace,” in La Guerre Du
Vietnam Et L’Europe, edited by Christopher Goscha and Maurice Vaisse, Bruylant, 2003.
“Why The United States Fought in Vietnam.” Co-authored with Stephen R. Routh. Annual Review
of Political Science. 2003
“The Vietnam War and It’s Impact,” co-authored with Jason Newman, in The Encyclopedia of
American Foreign Policy, edited by Alexander DeCorde, Richard Dean Burns, and
Fredrik Logevall. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001.
“Ronald Wilson Reagan,” co-authored with Stephen R. Routh, in The Oxford Companion to
Politics of the World, Oxford University Press, 2001.
“The Great Society” co-authored with Stephen R. Routh, in The Encyclopedia of American
Studies, Grollier Publishing Company, 2000.
“The Legacy of the Clinton Presidency in Foreign Policy,” co-authored with Emily Goldman, in
The Legacy of the Clinton Presidency, Chatham House,1999.
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“NSAM 263 and NSAM 273: Manipulating History,” in Vietnam: The Early Decisions, edited by
Lloyd Gardner. University of Texas Press, 1997.
“Presidency and Foreign Policy,” co-authored with Linda Valenty, in
Encyclopedia
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Foreign
Relations,
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by Bruce
Jentleson
Thomas Patterson, Oxford University Press, 1997.
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"Clinton's Foreign Policy at Midterm," co-authored with Emily Goldman in The Clinton
Presidency: First Appraisals, edited by Colin Campbell and Bert A. Rockman, Chatham
House, 1996.
"Coming to Grips with Lyndon Johnson's War," Diplomatic History 18. No. 4, Fall 1993.
“Protracted Foreign Military Intervention: A Structured, Focused Comparative Analysis,” coauthored with Bruce Jentleson and Ariel Levite, in Force, Diplomacy and Leadership:
Essays in Honor of Alexander L. George, edited by Dan Caldwell and Timothy
McKeown. Westview Press, 1993.
“From Intervention to Disengagement: The United States in Vietnam,” in Foreign Military
Intervention: The Dynamics of Protracted Conflict, edited by Ariel. E. Levite, Bruce
Jentleson and Larry Berman. Columbia University Press, 1992.
"Bush and the Post-Cold War World: New Challenges for American Leadership," co-author with
Bruce Jentleson in The Bush Presidency: First Appraisals, edited by Colin Campbell and
Bert Rockman, Chatham House, 1991.
"Presidential Powers and National Security," in The Constitution and National Security, edited by
Howard Shuman and Walter Thomas. National Defense University Press, 1990.
"Lyndon B. Johnson, Paths Chosen and Opportunities Lost," in Leadership in the Modern
Presidency, edited by Fred Greenstein. Harvard University Press, 1989.
"The President: Executive Energy and Republican Safety," in E Pluribus Unum: Constitutional
Principles and the Institutions of Government, edited by Sarah Thurow. University Press
of America, 1988.
"The Office of Management and Budget," in Government Agencies, edited by Donald Whitnah.
Greenwood Press, 1984.
“Waiting for Smoking Guns: Presidential Decision-making and the Vietnam War, 1965-67,” in
Vietnam as History, edited by Peter Braestrup. University Press of America, 1984
"Presidential Libraries: How Not to be a Stranger in a Strange Land," in Studying the Presidency,
edited by George Edwards and Steven Wayne. University of Tennessee Press, 1983.
"Johnson and the White House Staff," in Exploring the Johnson Years, edited by Robert Devine.
University of Texas Press, 1981.
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"The Evolution and Value of Presidential Libraries," in The Presidency and Information Policy,
edited by Harold Relyea. Center for the Study of the Presidency, 1981.
"OMB and the Hazards of Presidential Staff Work," Public Administration Review 38
(November/December 1978: 520-524).
"The Office of Management and Budget That Almost Wasn't," Political Science Quarterly 92
(Summer 1977: 281-304).
Available Upon Request
I joined the faculty of political science at UC Davis is 1977. Extensive listing of Conference
Presentations; Graduate Student Dissertation Committees; University and Department
Committees; Professional and Public Affairs Lectures and Professional References