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Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson (born September 5, 1953) is an American conservative commentator, classicist, and military historian. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Washington Times, and other media outlets.

He is a professor emeritus of Classics at California State University, Fresno, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and visiting professor at Hillsdale College. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush, and was a presidential appointee in 2007–2008 on the American Battle Monuments Commission.

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  • Cover of: Hoplites: the classical Greek battle experience

    First published in 1993 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece

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    First published in 2003 — 5 editions
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    First published in 1999 — 4 editions
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    First published in 1995 — 3 editions
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    First published in 1998 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: A war like no other: how the Athenians and Spartans fought the Peloponnesian War

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  • Cover of: Why the West Has Won: Carnage and Culture from Salamis to Vietnam

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    First published in 1983 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

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Subjects

History, Military art and science, Military art and science, history, Military History, Greece, history, military, Agriculture, Ancient Military history, Biography, Histoire, Military history, Agriculture, greece, Art et science militaires, Battles, Foreign relations, Generals, Military policy, New York Times reviewed, Civilization, western, history, Classical education, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Agriculture, Emigration and immigration, Family farms, Fiction, historical, Generals, biography

Places

Greece, United States, Mexico, Middle East, Attikē (Greece), California, Grèce, Selma (Calif.), Sparta (Greece), Thebes, Thebes (Greece)

People

Barack Obama, Epaminondas (b. ca. 420 B.C), William T. Sherman (1820-1891), Belisarius (approximately 505-565), David Howell Petraeus, George S. Patton (1885-1945), Homer, Matthew B. Ridgway (1895-1993), Themistocles (approximately 524 B.C.-approximately 459 B.C), Victor Davis Hanson

Time

To 500, Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C., 1995-2005, 2009-, 1989-, To 146 B.C.

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