David Shimer

David Shimer is an American historian and foreign policy analyst. He is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and an Associate Fellow at Yale University.[1]

David Shimer
EducationYale University (BA, MA)
Magdalen College, Oxford (DPhil)
Notable work
Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference (2020)

Shimer graduated from Yale University with bachelor's and master's degrees in history and was a Marshall Scholar and a Truman Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he received his doctorate in international relations.[2] He has written for The New York Times from five countries and was the editor in chief of the Yale Daily News. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs.[3][4]

Works

In June 2020, Shimer published the book Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference (Knopf), a global history of foreign election interference.[5]

The New York Times, in its review of Rigged, said the book was “extraordinary and gripping” and had “the insight of a superb work of history.”[6] Rigged was also positively reviewed by NPR, the Washington Post, and the Guardian and received praise from Anne Applebaum, William Joseph Burns, Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, David Petraeus, Timothy Snyder, and Jake Sullivan.[7][8][9]

References
  1. "David Shimer - Global Fellow". www.wilsoncenter.org.
  2. "David Shimer - Marshall Scholarships". www.marshallscholarship.org. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  3. "David Shimer". Foreign Affairs. 2019-04-09. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  4. "David Shimer | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  5. "Nonfiction Book Review: Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  6. "How Generations of Russians Have Tried to Influence American Elections". www.nytimes.com.
  7. "In 'Rigged,' A Comprehensive Account Of Decades Of Election Interference". www.npr.org.
  8. "Rigged: America, Russia and 100 Years of Covert Electoral Interference by David Shimer - review". www.theguardian.com.
  9. "Rigged by David Shimer". www.penguinrandomhouse.com.


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