Paul Seabury Explained

Paul Seabury
Birth Date:6 May 1923
Birth Place:Hempstead, New York, U.S.
Death Place:Pinole, California, U.S.
Nationality:American
Education:Swarthmore College
Columbia University (PhD)
Awards:Bancroft Prize (1964)

Paul Seabury (May 6, 1923  - October 17, 1990) was an American political scientist and foreign policy consultant.[1]

Life

Born in Hempstead, Long Island, Seabury was a native New Yorker. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1946, and from Columbia University with a Ph.D. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley starting in 1953.[2] Once a national official of the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, after the tumultuous era of student revolt at Berkeley, he became a leading spokesman for the first American neo-conservatives. He was part of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, which fostered intelligence studies in American universities. He served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board during the Reagan Administration.[3] He married Marie-Anne Phelps; they had two sons. His papers are held at the Hoover Institution.[4] He died in Pinole, California.[1]

Seabury was a great player of croquet, and edited a book on the game for Abercrombie and Fitch.[5]

Awards

Works

Notes and References

  1. News: Paul Seabury, 67, U.S. Authority On Foreign Policy and Educator. ALFONSO A. NARVAEZ. October 19, 1990. The New York Times.
  2. Web site: University of California: In Memoriam, 1992.
  3. News: Paul Seabury, 67; UC Professor, Expert on U.S. Foreign Policy . Los Angeles Times . Myrna . Oliver . October 20, 1990.
  4. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/data/13030/07/kt4w103407/files/kt4w103407.pdf
  5. Book: Nancy L. Rhoades. Croquet: An Annotated Bibliography from the Rendell Rhoades Croquet Collection. 14 March 2013. 1992. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-2571-0. 42–.