Neu, Charles E(ric) 1936-

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NEU, Charles E(ric) 1936-

PERSONAL: Born April 10, 1936, in Carroll, IA; son of Arthur N. (a lawyer) and Martha (Frandsen) Neu; married Deborah Dunning (director of Providence Preservation Society), September 2, 1961 (divorced, July 14, 1978); married Sabina Dewerth Tuck, March 27, 1999; children: Hilary Adams, Douglas Bancroft. Education: Northwestern University, B.A. (with highest distinction), 1958; Harvard University, Ph.D., 1964.

ADDRESSES: Home—346 Rochambeau Ave., Providence, RI 92906. Office—Department of History, Brown University, 142 Angell St., Providence, RI 02912-9127. E-mail—Charles_Neu@brown.edu.

CAREER: Rice University, Houston, TX, assistant professor, 1963-68, associate professor of history, 1968-72; Brown University, Providence, RI, associate professor, 1970-76, professor of history, 1976—, chairman of history department, 1995—. Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. Guest scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, 1988.

MEMBER: American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Society for the History of American Foreign Relations.

AWARDS, HONORS: Younger Scholar fellowship from National Endowment for the Humanities, 1968-69; American Council of Learned Societies fellowship, 1975-76; Howard foundation fellowship, 1976-77; National Endowment for the Humanities summer fellowships, 1979, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1992; Guggenheim fellowship, 1981-82.

WRITINGS:

An Uncertain Friendship: Theodore Roosevelt and Japan, 1906-09, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1967.

The Troubled Encounter: The United States and Japan, Wiley (New York, NY), 1975, reprinted, Krieger (Huntington, NY), 1979.

(Editor, with John Milton Cooper, Jr.) The Wilson Era: Essays in Honor of Arthur S. Link, Harlan Davidson (Arlington Heights, IL), 1991.

(Editor) After Vietnam: Legacies of a Lost War, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 2000.

Contributor to Twentieth-Century American Foreign Policy, Ohio State University (Columbus, OH), 1971; American-East Asian Relations: A Survey, edited by Ernest R. May and James C. Thomson, Jr., Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1972; The New American State: Bureaucracies and Policies since World War II, edited by Louis Galambos, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1987; Rethinking International Relations: Ernest R. May and the Study of World Affairs, edited by Akira Iriye, Imprint Publications (Chicago, IL), 1998.

WORK IN PROGRESS: A history of the Vietnam War; an edited volume on the foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson; a biography of Edward M. House.

SIDELIGHTS: Charles E. Neu is a professor of history at Brown University who specializes in United States foreign relations in the twentieth century. Among Neu's interests are the foreign policies of Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, World War I, the Vietnam War, and especially the lasting legacy of the Vietnam era on foreign policy decisions at the close of the century. Neu's book After Vietnam: Legacies of a Lost War collects five lectures first given at the Johns Hopkins University in 1998 as the Albert Shaw Lectures. The volume includes four talks by scholars, including Neu, and comments by Robert S. Mc-Namara, who served as secretary of defense from 1961-1968. The chief thrust of the book is the effects of the Vietnam War on the American psyche both public and private, and Neu's contribution "traces the progression from illusions of omnipotence, which took the United States into Vietnam, through disillusionment as it was recognized that the country's goals in Vietnam were beyond its reach," to quote Edwin Moise in an H-Net review. Library Journal correspondent Mel D. Lane praised the book as a "slim but thought-provoking" addition to the body of writings on military analysis.