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Young, Marilyn B.
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Marilyn B. Young was born Marilyn Blatt in Brooklyn, New York on April 25, 1937. She received a bachelor's degree in history from Vassar College in 1957 and a doctorate from Harvard University. In 1968, her dissertation became her first book The Rhetoric of Empire: American China Policy, 1895-1901. She also wrote The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990. She was a longtime professor at New York University. She died from complications of breast cancer on February 19, 2017 at the age of 79.
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