{"id":56660,"date":"2014-01-06T12:22:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T17:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=56660"},"modified":"2019-10-31T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T18:58:21","slug":"thomas-whalen","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/thomas-whalen\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Whalen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas J. Whalen is an Associate Professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/academics\/social-science\/\">Social Science<\/a> at Boston University and author of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kennedy-Versus-Lodge-Massachusetts-Senate\/dp\/1555534627\">Kennedy versus Lodge: The 1952 Massachusetts Senate Race<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Whalen\u2019s latest book,<em>\u00a0A Higher Purpose: Profiles in Presidential Courage<\/em>, resurrects Truman and eight other American leaders and the moments that defined their political careers, using John F. Kennedy\u2019s 1955 best seller,<em> Profiles in Courage<\/em>, as a touchstone. An expert in modern American politics, American foreign policy, and the American presidency, Whalen\u2019s expert commentary has appeared in <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>, ABCNews.com, <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>,\u00a0<em>USA Today<\/em>, <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Boston Globe,\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times,<\/em>\u00a0and the AP. He has also appeared on several national broadcast outlets, including CNN, NPR, and Reuters TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70789,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56660\/revisions\/70789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}