Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Andrew showcasing manifest from S.S. America voyage that brought Albright to the US in 1948. Shalikashvili arrived on that same ship when he emigrated from Europe in 1952. (August 2011)
Andrew has written the first biography on Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (1993–1997).
In 8 years of research he traveled over 30,000 miles to 30 cities, 12 states, 3 countries, and 2 continents; accessed 2 restricted Shalikashvili archives; and interviewed well over 300 people, from Shalikashvili and his family and childhood friends to President Bill Clinton, Gen. Colin Powell, Sec. of Defense William Perry, Sec. of State Madeleine Albright, and other leaders from the 1990s.
His research was partially funded by a George Marshall Foundation Baruch Fellowship Award. In both 2014 and 2016 he was one of three finalists for the Biographer International Organization's (BIO) Hazel Rowley Prize for best proposal for a first biography.
Andrew holds a PhD in Political Science from Brown University (2002), an MA in Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University's Fletcher School (1994), and a BA in East Asian Studies from Middlebury College (1990).
He currently serves as Outreach Editor for the Taiwan Journal of Democracy and is a reviewer for the Washington Independent Review of Books. He is also a member of both BIO and the Authors Guild.
He was founding editor of Asia Policy, a peer-reviewed journal of the National Bureau of Asian Research, and edited NBR's Strategic Asia series.
He lived in Taiwan for 8 years, and was editor of Issues & Studies, a social science quarterly on China, Taiwan, and East Asian affairs.
He lives in Washington, DC.
andrew_marble@shalibiography.com
"Using a brilliantly applied technique of 'flashbacks' juxtaposed with 'leap forwards,' Marble discusses not only what Gen. Shali accomplished during his long and distinguished career but ... [presents] Shali as a human being reacting to and being shaped by the events around him:
As a small boy witnessing brutal war; a teenager growing up in the American mid-west; an officer candidate subject to the privations of OCS; a young husband and father forced to deal with the deaths of both his wife and child; and, later, as a senior officer and nominee for his last and most prestigioius posting, having to face the very publications revelations of his father's service in Hitler's infamous Waffen SS and serious questions about his own knowledge of that part of the story."
- Col. (Ret.) Jon C. Schreyach
Former DivArty Operations Officer and Commander 6th Bn/14th FA, 1st Armored Division
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