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cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0><font size=+3 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Victor Davis Hanson</b></font><p><img src="victor-davis-hanson-2-sized.jpg" height=246 width=202 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Victor Davis Hanson"><b>Born:</b> <a href="/lists/766/000106448/" class=proflink>5-Sep</a>-<a href="/lists/952/000105637/" class=proflink>1953</a><br><b>Birthplace:</b> <a href="/geo/648/000116300/" class=proflink>Selma, CA</a><br><p><b>Gender:</b> Male<br><b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> White<br><b>Sexual orientation:</b> Straight<br><b>Occupation:</b> <a href="/lists/197/000068990/" class=proflink>Historian</a><p><b>Nationality:</b> United States<br><b>Executive summary:</b> <i>Carnage and Culture</i><p>Received a lottery number of 354 in the 1972 Vietnam draft. <p><b>Father:</b> William Frank Hanson<br><b>Mother:</b> Pauline Davis Hanson (b. 1922, d. 1989)<br><b>Brother:</b> Alfred (twin)<br><b>Brother:</b> Nels<br><b>Wife:</b> Cara (three children)<br><p> High School: Selma High School, Selma, CA<br> University: <a href="/edu/640/000068436/">BA Classics, University of California at Santa Cruz (1975)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/468/000068264/">PhD Classics, Stanford University (1980)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/687/000068483/">California State University Fresno (1984-)</a><br><p> <a href="/media/005/000048858/">National Review</a> Online Columnist<br> <a href="/org/398/000058224/">Claremont Institute</a> Fellow (2002-)<br> <a href="/org/715/000051562/">Committee on the Present Danger</a> <br> <a href="/org/493/000049346/">Hoover Institution</a> Senior Fellow<br> <a href="/honors/390/000105075/">National Humanities Medal</a> 2007<br> <a href="/lists/528/000044396/">Swedish Ancestry</a> <br> <p> <b>Official Website:</b><br><a href="http://www.victorhanson.com/" target=_blank>http://www.victorhanson.com/</a><p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece</i> (<tt>1983</tt>, history)<br><i>The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece</i> (<tt>1989</tt>, history)<br><i>The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization</i> (<tt>1995</tt>, history)<br><i>Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea</i> (<tt>1996</tt>, history)<br><i>Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom</i> (<tt>1998</tt>, education)<br><i>The Soul of Battle, From Ancient Times to the Present Day: How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny</i> (<tt>1999</tt>, history)<br><i>The Wars of the Ancient Greeks and Their Invention of Western Military Culture</i> (<tt>1999</tt>, history)<br><i>The Land Was Everything: Letters from an American Farmer</i> (<tt>2000</tt>, history)<br><i>Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power</i> (<tt>2001</tt>, history)<br><i>Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age</i> (<tt>2001</tt>, education)<br><i>An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism</i> (<tt>2002</tt>, politics)<br><i>Mexifornia: A State of Becoming</i> (<tt>2003</tt>, regional affairs)<br><i>Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think</i> (<tt>2003</tt>, history)<br><i>Between War and Peace: Lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq</i> (<tt>2004</tt>, politics)<br><i>A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War</i> (<tt>2005</tt>, history)<br><i>The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern</i> (<tt>2010</tt>, history)<br><i>The End of Sparta: A Novel</i> (<tt>2011</tt>, novel)<br><i>The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost, From Ancient Greece to Iraq</i> (<tt>2013</tt>, history)<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=116184"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=116184">Victor Davis Hanson</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=116184" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>