Degrees: MPH, 1979, CUNY Gr Sch & Univ Cnt; PHD, 1979, CUNY Gr Sch & Univ Cnt; BA, 1970, Yeshiva Univ New York

Bio:

BERNARD J. FIRESTONE, professor, is currently serving as dean of the Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He received his B.A. from Yeshiva University in 1970 and his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1979. A specialist in International Relations and the American presidency, Dr. Firestone is the author of The Quest for Nuclear Stability: John F. Kennedy and the Soviet Union and editor of Lyndon Baines Johnson and The Uses of Power and Gerald R. Ford and the Politics of Post Watergate America. His recent article on Kennedy's national security policy was published in Kennedy and Europe, edited by historian Douglas Brinkley. Dr. Firestone's latest book, The United Nations Under U Thant: 1961 1971, part of a series on the United Nations published by Scarecrow Press, appeared in October 2001.