Eugene P. Trani

Eugene P. Trani is President Emeritus of Virginia Commonwealth University, having retired in 2009 after a nineteen-year term as president. A specialist in U.S. foreign affairs, Dr. Trani has written extensively on the historic development of U.S. relations with other countries. He is the author of The Presidency of Warren G. Harding, acknowledged by Book magazine as the definitive book on Harding's much documented term in office, and co-author, with Donald E. Davis, of The First Cold War: the Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet Relations and Distorted Mirrors: Americans and Their Relations with Russia and China in the Twentieth Century, recently published in the U.S. and Russia, and soon to be published in China and Spain.