Justus Drew Doenecke

Justus Drew Doenecke (born March 5, 1938) is an American historian, writer, and professor. His 2000 book, Storm on the Horizon: the Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941, received the Herbert Hoover Book Award from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum. Doenecke is Professor Emeritus at New College of Florida.

Education Doenecke was born on March 5, 1938, in Brooklyn, New York, to Justus Christian and Eleanore Howard (née Smith) Doenecke. In 1960, he graduated magna cum laude from Colgate University with his Bachelor of Arts degree. Doenecke earned his Master's degree and Ph.D. in History from Princeton University in 1962 and 1966, respectively.

Career Doenecke was an Instructor of History at Colgate University from 1963 to 1964, and was instructor, then assistant professor, at Ohio Wesleyan University from 1965 to 1969. He rose from assistant professor to full professor at New College of Florida (from 1975 to 2001 New College of the University of South Florida) from 1966 to 2005, before being named Professor Emeritus of History in 2005.

He is the author of more than ten books.

Doenecke's documentary edition of the America First Committee won the Arthur S. Link Prize for Documentary Editing from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Books From Isolation to War, 1931-1941. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company (1968). The Literature of Isolationism: A Guide to Non-Interventionist Scholarship, 1930-1972. Colorado Springs: Ralph Myles (1972). Not to the Swift: the Old Isolationists in the Cold War Era. Lewisberg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press (1979). . The Diplomacy of Frustration: The Manchurian Crisis of 1931-1933 as Revealed in the Papers of Stanley K. Hornbeck (1981). . The Presidencies of James A. Garfield & Chester A. Arthur. Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas (1981). . When the Wicked Rise: American Opinion-Makers and the Manchurian Crisis of 1931-1933. Lewisberg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press (1984). . In Danger Undaunted: the Anti-Interventionist Movement of 1940-1941 as Revealed in the Papers of the America First Committee (1990). . The Battle Against Intervention, 1939-1941. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger (1997). . . Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941 (2000). . . The New Deal. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger (2003). . . Debating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Foreign Policies, with Mark A. Stoler. New York: Rowman & Littlefield (2005). . . Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America's Entry into World War I. University Press of Kentucky (2011). . .

Book reviews Review of Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign Against American "Neutrality" in World War II, by Nicholas J. Cull. Independent Review, vol. 1, no. 2 (Fall 1996). Review of Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939–1944, by Thomas E. Mahl. Independent Review, vol. 4, no. 1 (Summer 1999). Review of Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions, by Fleming Rutledge. Anglican Theological Review, vol. 104, no. 1 (Feb. 2022), pp. 99-100. .

Contributions "Power, Markets, and Ideology: The Isolationist Response to Roosevelt Policy, 1940-1941." In: Liggio, Leonard P., and James J. Martin, eds. Watershed of Empire: Essays on New Deal Foreign Policy, with a preface by Felix Morley. Colorado Spring: Ralph Myles (1976). pp. 132-161. .

Encyclopedic and reference "Isolationism." In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Oxford University Press. .