STANFORD – Victor Davis Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, has been awarded the Claremont Institute’s Statesmanship Award for 2006.
The award will be presented on November 10 in Beverly Hills, California during the institute’s annual dinner in honor of Sir Winston Churchill.
The Claremont Institute's Statesmanship Award, which is not necessarily conferred each year, is reserved for those worthy of its name and excellence, according to the Institute.
Past recipients include President Ronald Reagan, The Right Honorable Margaret Thatcher, Justice Clarence Thomas, former United States Representative Jack Kemp, and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, among others. The Statesmanship Award recipient offers the evening's keynote address.
In addition to being a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Hanson also is a professor emeritus at California University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He joined California State University, Fresno, in 1984 to initiate a classics program. Hanson is the author of hundreds of articles, book reviews, scholarly papers, and newspaper editorials on matters ranging from Greek, agrarian and military history to foreign affairs, domestic politics, and contemporary culture. He has written or edited 16 books. His newest book, published by Random House in October 2005, is A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War.
He lives and works with his family on their forty-acre tree and vine farm near Selma, California, where he was born in 1953.
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