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Gil Troy is Professor of History at McGill University in Montreal and a Visiting Scholar affiliated with the
Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington.
His latest book
Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents will be published this
June by Basic Books. This spring the University Press of Kansas released the paperback edition of
his book
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady, having been published in hard cover in 2006.
Troy is the author of
Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s, published in 2005 by
Princeton University Press and released in paperback in 2007. It has been called a "masterly study of Ronald
Reagan's presidency - the best single book we have on his administration to date." His two other works in American
history were
Mr. and Mrs. President: From the Trumans to the Clintons (2000) - first published by The Free Press
as Affairs of State: The Rise and Rejection of the Presidential Couple Since World War II and See How They Ran:
The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate, originally published by the Free Press in 1991, then released
in an updated paperback edition by Harvard University Press in 1997.
Troy is also the author of
Why I Am a Zionist: Israel, Jewish Identity and the Challenges of Today.
The book has been hailed as a "must read," and the most persuasive presentation of the Zionist case "in decades."
It has been released in a third expanded and updated edition, having sold over 15,000 copies.
Troy is a native of Queens, New York. He received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard
University. After receiving his Ph. D in History in 1988, he taught History and Literature at Harvard for two
years. In September 1990, Troy became an assistant professor of history at McGill University. In 1995,
Troy was promoted to Associate Professor and granted tenure. From 1997 to 1998 he served as chairman of
McGill's history department. In March, 1999 he was promoted to Full Professor. Maclean's magazine has
repeatedly labeled him one of McGill's "Popular Profs" and the History News Network designated him
one of its first 12
"Top Young Historians". He can be reached via email at gtroy@videotron.ca
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