Middlekauff, Robert

Robert Middlekauff is Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been the director of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (1983 1988); and Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford. His books include The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596 1728, which won the Bancroft Prize; The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763 1789, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies.