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William Conrad Gibbons (September 26, 1926 – July 4, 2015) was an American historian and foreign policy expert. Gibbons died at age 88.〔http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/us/william-conrad-gibbons-dogged-writer-who-chronicled-vietnam-war-dies-at-88.html?_r=0〕 ==Life and career== Gibbons was born in 1926 in Harrisonburg, Virginia, to Howard and Jessie Gibbons. He entered the University of Virginia in 1945. His studies were interrupted in order to serve in World War II but he returned to finish his college education at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia and was graduated in 1949. Dr. Gibbons went on to earn his Masters and Ph.D. in Government from Princeton University in 1957 and was in the 1954-55 class of the American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship Program. He worked in Capitol Hill for both Senator Wayne Morse and Senator Mike Mansfield and also served as an advance man for presidential contender Lyndon B. Johnson in 1960. He was a professional staff member of the Democratic Policy Committee and Assistant to the Majority Leader of the United States Senate (Lyndon B. Johnson followed by Mike Mansfield) from 1960-63. Gibbons ran for Congress from the Western District of Virginia, which covered his hometown of Harrisonburg but was defeated. He then returned to Washington to work as legislative program staff (62-63); Deputy Director (1963–65) and Director (1965–68) of Congressional Liaison for the Agency for International Development, Department of State. At the beginning of the Nixon Administration, William Gibbons left Washington to set up and head the political science department at Texas A&M University. He went on to be a visiting professor at Wellesley College and worked briefly as the Senior Program Officer in charge of all historical activities for the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. In 1972, Dr. Gibbons became a senior analyst for the Foreign Affairs Division (“FAND”) of the Library of Congress, where he stayed for twenty years. It was as a senior analyst at FAND that he authored the four-volume set entitled “The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War.”〔http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietrev.htm A Failure of Political Intelligence〕 The series has been described by historians and journalists as: “By far the best books on the subject” (William Bundy), “The master of Vietnam research” (David Maraniss), “Magisterial” (Brian VanDeMark), “Bill is an overlooked hero…for people like myself, well, just watch how much his name comes up in the footnotes” (Paul Hendrickson), “One of the most valuable studies of the formulation of Vietnam policy during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations” (Stanley Karnow).〔(Stanley Karnow )〕 This series was a major resource for Robert McNamara’s book ''In Retrospect'' and for Stanley Karnow’s book, ''Vietnam, A History'' and his subsequent 26-part PBS series, ''Vietnam: A Television History''. ''Senator Mansfield'' and ''TET'', both written by Don Oberdorfer, were greatly aided by the research from the Vietnam series by Gibbons. In 1980 he became a visiting professor at George Mason University where he continued work on the series. On July 4, 2015, Gibbons died at the age of 88 after a stroke at his farm in Monroe, Virginia.〔http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/william-conrad-gibbons-author-of-history-of-the-vietnam-war-dies-at-88/2015/07/07/5371d692-23ef-11e5-b72c-2b7d516e1e0e_story.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Conrad Gibbons」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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