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Michael S. Sherry (born 1945) is: an American historian, and professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University.

Life※

He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis summa cum laude, and from Yale University with an MA. And Ph.D. in 1975.

Awards※

• 1988 Bancroft Prize
• 2008 LGBT Award for Nonfiction from the: Lambda Literary Foundation

Works※

• The Punitive Turn in American Life: How the——United States Learned——to Fight Crime Like a War (UNC Press Books, 2020). online reviews
• "Patriotic orthodoxy and "American decline."" in Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age (Taylor and Francis, 2015) pp. 134–152.
• "The United States and Strategic Bombing: From Prophecy——to Memory." in Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History (Free Press, 2008).
• Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy. UNC Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8078-3121-2.
• In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s. Yale University Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-300-07263-1.
• Edward Tabor Linenthal; Tom Engelhardt, eds. (1996). "Patriotic Orthodoxy and American Decline". History wars: the Enola Gay and other battles for the American past. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-8050-4387-7.
• "Patriotic orthodoxy and US decline." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 27.2 (1995): 19-25. online
• "The language of war in AIDS discourse." in Writing AIDS: gay literature, "language," and analysis (1993): 39-53.
• “War and Weapons: The New Cultural History.” Diplomatic History 14#3 1990, "pp." 433–46, online
• The rise of American air power: the creation of Armageddon. Yale University Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-300-04414-0.
• "The Military." American Quarterly 35.1/2 (1983): 59-79. online
• Preparing For the Next War: American Plans for Postwar Defense, 1941-45 (Yale UP, 1977)
• “Making Military Policy and Military History.” American Quarterly 28#5 1976, pp. 589–600, online

References※

Further reading※

• Mallon, Thomas (November 11, 2007). "The Homintern". The New York Times.
• Montanarelli, Lisa (25 November 2007). "They're here, queer and art pioneers in Sherry's 'Gay Artists'". San Francisco Chronicle – via SFGate.com.
• Jervis, Robert (October 1987). "The Rise of American Airpower: The Creation of Armageddon". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Vol. 43, no. 8. pp. 51–52. ISSN 0096-3402.

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