Jeremy Black, Senior Fellow, is professor of history at Exeter University. He studied at Queens’ College Cambridge, St John’s College Oxford, and Merton College Oxford before joining the University of Durham as a lecturer in 1980. There he gained his PhD and ultimately his professorship in 1994. Recent books include Modern British History (Palgrave, 2000), The Politics of James Bond (Praeger, 2001), America as a Military Power 1775-1882 (Praeger, 2002), The World in the Twentieth Century (Longman, 2002), Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, 2004), The English Seaborne Empire, Yale, 2004, and World War Two: A Military History (Routledge, 2003), and Great Military Leaders and their Campaigns (Oct. 2008). The Society of Military History recognized Jeremy Black's work in April 2008, presenting him with the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement.
On November 15th at the FPRI annual dinner Fouad Ajami was presented with the Seventh Annual Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award. The event was attended by over 360 people.
Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. was dinner chairman.

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