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William B. Allen

William Barclay Allen (born 1944) is an American author, professor, and political scientist from Fernandina Beach, Florida.[1] He was a member of the National Council on the Humanities from 1984 to 1987 and chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights from 1988 to 1989. Allen has been described as a "conservative black leader in education."[2]

William Allen

Ronald Reagan
George H. W. Bush

Clarence Pendleton

Arthur Fletcher

1944 (age 79–80)
Fernandina Beach, Florida, U.S.

Danielle

Pepperdine College (BA)
Claremont Graduate University (MA, PhD)

Personal life[edit]

Allen is the father of classicist and political scientist Danielle Allen.[13]

(honoris causa), Averett College, 1998.[14]

LL.D.

Ll.D. (honoris causa), 1988, .

Pepperdine University

George Washington: America's First Progressive (Peter Lang, Inc.), 2008.

The Personal and the Political: Three Fables by Montesquieu (UPA), 2008.

Re-Thinking Uncle Tom: The Political Philosophy of H. B. Stowe (Lexington Books), 2008.

Habits of Mind: Fostering Excellence and Access in Higher Education, with Carol M. Allen (Transaction Publishers, Inc.), 2003.

, editor and Introduction (Liberty Press, 1988), 3rd printing, 2003.

George Washington: A Collection

The Essential Antifederalist: Second Edition, with Gordon Lloyd (Rowman & Littlefield), 2002.

The Federalist Papers: A Commentary: The "Baton Rouge Lectures". A full-length commentary, plus an analytical legal index (Peter Lang, Inc.), 2000.

Let the Advice Be Good: A Defense of Madison's Democratic Nationalism (University Press of America), 1994.

United States Commission on Civil Rights

Archived 13 June 2022 at the Wayback Machine

Dr. William B. Allen personal homepage

on C-SPAN

Appearances