Description: In Judgment Calls, historian Zachary Shore explores how we make decisions when the stakes are highest. Ranging across history, science, and culture--from Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the cultural impact of Robin Williams--these essays probe how judgment fails and how it can improve.
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Zachary Shore is Professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley's Institute of European Studies, and a National Security Visiting Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He earned his doctorate in modern history at Oxford, performed postdoctoral research at Harvard, and held a fellowship at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. In 2024, he received the Alfried Krupp Foundation fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. Shore is the author of five previous books on judgment in world affairs. He is also the author of Grad School Essentials, a humorous guide to boosting performance in grad school. He can be reached through ZacharyShore.com.