'Jean Edward Smith' (born
October 13,
1932,
Washington, D.C.) is professor at
Marshall University and biographer. Currently he is the
John Marshall Professor of
Political Science at
Marshall University and professor
emeritus at the
University of Toronto after having served as professor of
political economy there for thirty-five years. Smith also currently serves as professor of
history and
government at
Ashland University.
A graduate of McKinley High School in Washington, D.C., Smith received an A.B. from
Princeton University in 1954. While attending Princeton, Smith was mentored under law professor and political scientist
William M. Beaney. Professor Beaney's ''American Constitutional Law: Introductory Essays & Selected Cases'', became a standard text and was widely used in university
constitutional law classes for several years. Serving in the military from 1954-1961, he rose from the rank of
Second Lieutenant to
Captain (RA)
US Army (
Artillery). Smith served in
West Berlin and
Dachau,
Germany. In 1964, he obtained a
Ph.D. from the Department of Public Law and Government of
Columbia University. Smith began his teaching career as
assistant professor of government at
Dartmouth College, a post he held from 1963 until 1965. He then became a
professor of political economy at the
University of Toronto in 1965 until his retirement in 1999. Professor Smith also served as visiting professor at several universities during his tenure at the University of Toronto and after his retirement including the
Freie Universität in Berlin,
Georgetown University, the
University of Virginia’s Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, and the
University of California at San Diego.
Works
★ ''FDR'', New York: Random House, 2007
★ ''Grant'', New York: Simon and Shuster, 2001.
★ ''The Face of Justice: Portraits of John Marshall'' (with William H. Gerdts, Wendell D. Garrett, Frederick S. Voss, and David B. Dearinger), Huntington, West Virginia: Huntington Museum of Art, 2001.
★ ''John Marshall: Definer of a Nation'', New York: Henry, Holt & Company, 1996.
★ ''Lucius D. Clay: An American Life'', New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990.
★ ''George Bush's War''
★ ''The Constitution and American Foreign Policy''
★ ''Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Debated'' (with Herbert Levine)
★ ''The Conduct of American Foreign Policy Debated'' (with Herbert Levine)
★ ''The Evolution of NATO with Four Plausible Threat Scenarios'' (with Steven L. Canby), Ottawa, Canada: Canada Department of National Defence, 1987.
★ ''The Papers of Lucius D. Clay'' (ed.)
★ ''Germany Beyond the Wall: People, Politics, and Prosperity''
★ ''The Wall as Watershed'', Arlington, Virginia: Institute for Defence Analyses, 1966.
★ ''Der Weg ins Delemma'', 1965.
★ ''The Defence of Berlin'', Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1963.
References
★
Georgetown University biographical sketch
★
Marshall University biographical sketch
★
Ashland University Department of History and Government
★ [http://www.law.uc.edu/alumni/counselor/spring00/burlingame.html University of Cincinnati College of Law, 2000 John H. Burlingame Distinguished Lecture