Paul Seabury was an American historian

Historian

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, and foreign policy consultant.

Life

Born Hempstead, Long Island

Hempstead (village), New York

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, Seabury was a native New Yorker. He graduated from Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College

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 in 1946, and from Columbia University

Columbia University

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, with a Ph.D. He taught at University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 starting in 1953. He was part of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, which fostered intelligence studies in American universities. He served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He married Marie-Anne Phelps; they had two sons. His papers are held at the Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution

The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded in 1919 by then future U.S. president, Herbert Hoover, an early alumnus of Stanford....

. He died in Pinole, California

Pinole, California

Pinole is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. The population was 18,390 at the 2010 census. It is one of many small “bedroom communities” along the I-80 corridor in Western Contra Costa County. It is located about northeast of San Francisco, and approximately a half-hour...

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Works

• "The Banality of Liberalism", The New York Review of Books, November 11, 1965
• "Trendier than thou: the many temptations of the Episcopal Church", Harper's Magazine, 1978
• The Wilhelmstrasse, University of California Press, 1954
• Power, Freedom, and Diplomacy, Random House, 1963
• The Balance of Power, Chandler Pub. Co., 1965
• The Rise and Decline of the Cold War, Basic Books, 1967 (2nd edition Brassey's, 2006, ISBN 9781574886108)