Biography - Jeffery B Cook

Jeffery B. Cook has spent a significant portion of his career studying and writing political and presidential history, employing those works in several university and college classrooms. Dr. Cook received a B.A. from Fairmont State University, and earned a master’s and Ph.D. from West Virginia University. Professor Cook is a Professor of History at North Greenville University where he has been teaching and publishing for the past seven years. Professor Cook is a contributor to several encyclopedias, most notably the Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 (ABC-CLIO), the Encyclopedia of the Mexican War (ABC-CLIO), the Encyclopedia of the Civil War (ABC-CLIO), and the Encyclopedia of the Spanish American War (ABC-CLIO). Most recently, Cook has written several scholarly works, including “Herbert Hoover,” in The Chronology of the United States Presidency (2011), ed. Matthew Manweller, “Ronald Reagan: Redefining The Presidency,” in The 1980s: A Critical and Transitional Decade? (2010), ed. Kimberley Moffitt, “Reform: The Conservative Response,” in Culture, Class and Politics in Modern Appalachia: Essays in Honor or Ronald L. Lewis (2009), ed. Ken Fones-Wolf, “The Great War: America’s Conflicted Role on the World Stage,” in Conflicts in American History: The Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and WWI, 1877-1920 (2010), ed. Kent McConnell, and “The Cold War and the 1984 Presidential Election,” Proceedings South Carolina Upstate Research Symposium. His first book, The Presidency of Harry S Truman: Continuity and Change is part of the NOVA Science Presidential Series will be published in 2011, and he is editing Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Writers of World War II. Currently, Cook is now at completing a book on Governor Aretas Brooks Fleming for West Virginia University Press and a fourth book focuses on the cultural and political history of the 1980s, a number of articles for Greenwood Press. Dt. Cook serves on several national boards and editorial boards, and has taught several years for the University of Maryland University Colleges and the American Military University, and he operates a small business in South Carolina. His wife Laura is a Kentucky native, and they have four daughters Margaret Anne (Maggie), Sara Elizabeth, Samantha Joy, and Reagan Spencer.