William Taubman

William Chase Taubman (born 1941) is an American political scientist and Bertrand Snell Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Amherst College. He is renowned for his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (2004) and other notable works like Gorbachev: His Life and Times (2017) and the forthcoming McNamara at War (2025, co-authored with Philip Taubman). His career highlights include a Ph.D. from Columbia University and extensive research on Soviet leaders and history.