William Taubman

William Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College. His book, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of McNamara at War: A New History and Gorbachev: His Life and Times. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

William Taubman

Awards

Winner — Pulitzer Prize, 2004

Winner — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2003

Books by William Taubman

McNamara at War: A New History
William Taubman, Philip Taubman
Hardback, 2025
A revelatory portrait of Robert S. McNamara, informed by newly discovered diaries, letters and interviews with those closest to him
McNamara at War: A New History
William Taubman, Philip Taubman
E Book
A revelatory portrait of Robert S. McNamara, informed by newly discovered diaries, letters and interviews with those closest to him
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
William Taubman
Hardback, 2003
Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced...
Stalin's American Policy: From Entente to Detente to Cold War
William Taubman
Paperback, 1985
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
William Taubman
Paperback, 2004
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Gorbachev: His Life and Times
William Taubman
Paperback, 2018
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
William Taubman
E Book, 2012
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Gorbachev: His Life and Times
William Taubman
E Book, 2017