Gil Troy
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Gil Troy is an American academic. Troy is Professor of History at McGill University
McGill University
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 in Montreal and a Visiting Scholar affiliated with the Bipartisan Policy Center
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 in Washington.

Troy is a native of Queens, New York. He received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

. After receiving his Ph.D in History in 1988, he taught History and Literature at Harvard for two years. In September 1990, Troy became an assistant professor of history at McGill University. In 1995, Troy was promoted to Associate Professor and granted tenure. From 1997 to 1998 he served as chairman of McGill's history department. In March, 1999 he was promoted to Full Professor. Maclean's
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 magazine has repeatedly labeled him one of McGill's "Popular Profs" and the History News Network
History News Network
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 designated him one of its first 12 "Top Young Historians." His brother is Tevi Troy
Tevi Troy
Tevi David Troy is the former Deputy Secretary of United States Department of Health and Human Services in the administration of George W. Bush.-Personal history:...

.

Professor Troy serves on advisory panel of scholars
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 for the History News Network
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History News Network is a project of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Although the HNN resides on GMU's server, it operates independently of the university as a non-profit corporation registered in Washington State...

, an independent non-profit corporation hosted by George Mason University
George Mason University
George Mason University is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax. Additional campuses are located nearby in Arlington County, Prince William County, and Loudoun County...

, including also other academic historians Pauline Maier
Pauline Maier
Pauline Maier is a popular scholar of the American Revolution, the preceding era and post-revolutionary United States. She is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ....

 and Joyce Appleby
Joyce Appleby
Joyce Oldham Appleby is an American historian. She is Professor Emerita of History at University of California, Los Angeles Joyce Oldham Appleby (born April 9, 1929) is an American historian. She is Professor Emerita of History at University of California, Los Angeles Joyce Oldham Appleby (born...

.

Books

His latest book Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents was published in June 2008 by Basic Books. In the spring of 2008, the University Press of Kansas released the paperback edition of his book Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady, having been published in hard cover in 2006. Troy is the author of Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s, published in 2005 by Princeton University Press and released in paperback in 2007. It has been called a "masterly study of Ronald Reagan's presidency - the best single book we have on his administration to date." His two other works in American history were Mr. and Mrs. President: From the Trumans to the Clintons (2000) - first published by The Free Press as Affairs of State: The Rise and Rejection of the Presidential Couple Since World War II and See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate, originally published by the Free Press in 1991, then released in an updated paperback edition by Harvard University Press in 1997.

Troy is also the author of Why I Am a Zionist: Israel, Jewish Identity and the Challenges of Today. It has been released in a third expanded and updated edition, having sold over 25,000 copies.

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