McNELLY, THEODORE

Professor Emeritus in Government and Politics

University of Maryland at College Park

Home Address:

14800 Cobblestone Drive

Silver Spring, MD 20905

Tel. 301 384 8996

thm26@columbia.edu

Recent publications:

The Origins of Japan’s Democratic Constitution (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000)

This book is reviewed in Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 46, issue 1, [March 2002] p. 144:

“. . . Aside from the attention to detail, this book’s primary strength lies in the sense it conveys of a unique period in Japan’s history. It depicts with startling clarity that nation’s almost complete subservience to the United States in the area of Constitutional reform – a process in which Japanese interests, needless to say, were paramount. It will provide students of constitutional reform in Japan with a necessary starting point for many years to come.”

Witness to the Twentieth Century: The Life Story of a Japan Specialist (Philadelphia: Exlibris, 2006)

For a detailed description of this book, including sample pages, see https://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=26136

This book was reviewed by the Midwest Book Review in 2006:

“. . . McNelly’s ‘insider’ account of the formation of Japan’s postwar democratic constitution, his years of teaching courses in politics and history at American military bases in Germany, France, England, Japan, Okinawa, and Korea, his side trips to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, his articulate descriptions of the effects of World War II on the peoples of these lands, his interpretation of the collapse of the Fourth Republic of France, his thirty-year career as a professor at the University of Maryland at College Park, and so much more, provide the reader with a fascinating perspective on key events of the twentieth century. This is an outstanding memoir and a recommended addition to academic library biography collections and Japanese history supplemental reading lists.”