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  1. Education

  2. Career

  3. Awards

  4. Books

  5. References

  6. External links

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Ian W. Toll (born 1967) is an American author and military historian. He lives in New York City.

Education

Toll received a degree in history from Georgetown University in 1989, and a master's degree in public policy (M.P.P.) from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1995.[1]

Career

Toll is the author of The Epic History of the Founding of the US Navy; Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942; and The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944. The latter two titles are the first two volumes of a nonfiction trilogy about the Pacific War.[2]

Earlier in his career, he was a political aide and speechwriter to U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes and New York Lieutenant Governor Stan Lundine. Subsequently, Toll was an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and an equity research analyst at three investment banks, covering communications, software, and e-commerce stocks.[1]

Toll has also served as a juror for the National Endowment for the Humanities, a cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department, and a lecturer at the Naval War College.

Awards

Six Frigates was the 2007 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature[3][4] and the William E. Colby Military Writers Award.[1][5]Pacific Crucible received the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction in 2012.[6]The Conquering Tide was a New York Times bestseller and was selected as the best book of 2016 by Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times.[7][8]

Books

  • Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy, W. W. Norton, 2006. {{ISBN|0393058476}}
  • Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942, W. W. Norton, 2011. {{ISBN|9780393068139}}
  • The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944, W. W. Norton, 2015. {{ISBN|9780393080643}}

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/ian-w-toll-six-frigates/|title=Ian W. Toll: Six Frigates - Pritzker Military Museum & Library - Chicago|work=pritzkermilitary.org}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Author.aspx?id=8255|title=Ian W. Toll|work=wwnorton.com}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.navalorder.org/awards-given/ |title=Latest NOUS Awards |publisher=Naval Order of the United States |author= |date= |accessdate=December 23, 2017 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603021019/https://www.navalorder.org/awards-given/ |archivedate=2017-06-03 |deadurl=no}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.navalordernyc.org/previous-morison-book-awards|title=Previous Morison Book Awards|publisher=Naval Order of the United States, New York Commandery |accessdate=December 23, 2017 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827031557/http://www.navalordernyc.org/previous-morison-book-awards |archivedate=2016-08-27 |deadurl=no}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://colby.norwich.edu/award/|title=The Colby Award for Military Writers : Colby Symposium|work=Colby Symposium}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://poetryflash.org/programs/?p=ncba_2012|title=Poetry Flash > programs|work=poetryflash.org}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2015-10-11/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html|title=Best Sellers/Hardcover Nonfiction|last=|first=|date=October 11, 2015|website=New York Times|publisher=|access-date=2016-12-31}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/aec5898e-b88c-11e6-ba85-95d1533d9a62|title=The Best Books of 2016|last=|first=|date=2 December 2016|publisher=Financial Times|access-date=|work=Financial Times}}
  • Author's biography at http://www.ianwtoll.com/
  • Entry from the 2007 ed. of Contemporary Authors
  • [https://www.amazon.com/Ian-W.-Toll/e/B001IGNNMC Author page at Amazon.com] Retrieved 2015-01-26.
  • Author page at Simon & Schuster.com Retrieved 2015-01-26.
  • Pacific Crucible page at W. W. Norton Retrieved 2015-01-26.
  • The Conquering Tide page at W. W. Norton Retrieved 2016-01-04.

External links

  • [https://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/ian-w-toll-six-frigates/ Toll discusses Six Frigates] at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on May 10, 2007. Retrieved 2015-01-26.
  • {{C-SPAN|Ian Toll}}
  • [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/books/review/Thomas.t.html Review of Six Frigates]
  • [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204190704577024143531507710 Review of Pacific Crucible]
  • [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/books/review/the-conquering-tide-by-ian-w-toll.html Review of The Conquering Tide]
  • [https://livestream.com/nww2m/events/6497047 Toll at National World War II Museum]
  • [https://www.nysoclib.org/events/ian-w-toll-conquering-tide-war-pacific-islands-1942-1944 Toll at New York Society Library]
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6 : 1967 births|Living people|John F. Kennedy School of Government alumni|American male non-fiction writers|Georgetown University alumni|American maritime historians

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