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William Leonard Langer

William Leonard LangerBorn: 16-Mar-1896
Birthplace: Boston, MA
Died: 26-Dec-1977
Location of death: Boston, MA
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Our Vichy Gamble

Military service: US Army (WWI)

Father: Charles Langer
Mother: Johanna Rockenbach
Wife: Susanne Knauth (#1)
Wife: Rowena Nelson (#2)

    University: BA, Harvard University (1915)
    University: MA, Harvard University (1920)
    University: PhD, Harvard University (1923)
    Professor: History, Harvard University (1927-64)

    US State Department Asst. to the Secretary of State (1946)

Author of books:
European Alliances and Alignments 1871-90 (1931, history)
The Diplomacy of Imperalism 1890-1902 (1935, history)
Our Vichy Gamble (1947, history)
The Challenge to Isolation, 1937–40 (1952, history, with S. E. Gleason)
The Undeclared War, 1940–41 (1953, history, with S. E. Gleason)
In and Out of the Ivory Tower (1977, memoir)


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