In the Nation’s Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz

In the Nation’s Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz

Guests gathered at 12:15 p.m. in Bass Lecture Hall at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

Philip Taubman, a lecturer at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, discussed his biography of George Shultz, In the Nation’s Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz, which was published by Stanford University Press in 2023.

Before joining CISAC in 2008, Mr. Taubman had worked at The New York Times as a reporter and editor for nearly 30 years, specializing in national security issues, including United States diplomacy, intelligence, and defense policy and operations. At the Times, Taubman served as Washington correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, deputy editorial page editor, Washington bureau chief, and associate editor.

At the time, he had been working on a book about Robert McNamara. Taubman had been a history major at Stanford, Class of 1970, and served as editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily in 1969. Before joining The New York Times, he worked as a correspondent for Time magazine and as sports editor of Esquire. He served on the Stanford Board of Trustees from 1978 to 1982 and as secretary of the Stanford Board from 2011 to 2018.

He was also the author of The Partnership: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb (HarperCollins, 2012) and Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America’s Space Espionage (Simon & Schuster, 2003).