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Arthur L. Herman (born 1956) is an American popular historian, currently serving as a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.[1] He generally employs the Great Man perspective in his work, which is 19th-century historical methodology attributing human events and their outcomes to the singular efforts of great men (and occasionally women) that has been refined and qualified by such modern thinkers as Sidney Hook.
Herman received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota and M.A. and Ph.D. in history from John Hopkins University. He spent a semester abroad at Edinburgh University in Scotland.[2] His 1984 dissertation dealt with the political thought…

1975 - To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
1997 - The Idea Of Decline In Western History, Free Press, 1997-01-08 ISBN 978-0-684-82791-9.
1999 - Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator, Free Press, 1999-12-02 ISBN 978-0-684-83625-6.
2001 - How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
2008 - Gandhi and Churchill:The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
2013 - The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization