Roger Morris earned his doctorate in government from Harvard University . He entered government service in 1966 as a Junior Foreign Service Officer. After an assignment to Belgrade, he was chosen as a research assistant on a specific project to former United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson . He first joined the National Security Council staff under the administration of Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson . When Republican Richard Nixon won the presidency in 1968, he appointed Henry Kissinger as his National Security Advisor , and Kissinger asked Morris to remain on the NSC staff as a senior staff member.[ 3] [ 4] Cambodian Campaign .
Morris has served as a university lecturer, but is best known as a writer. His biography of Nixon, Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician, was short-listed for the National Book Award .[ 5]
His major works include:
Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy . 1978.The Devil's Butcher Shop: The New Mexico Prison Uprising , Franklin Watts, 1983.Haig: The General's Progress Playboy ISBN 0-87223-753-2 . Covers the remarkable rise of Alexander Haig from boyhood to Secretary of State.Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician , 1991.Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America ISBN 0-89526-302-5 . Detailed coverage of the rise of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton .The Money and the Power: the Making of Las Vegas (with Sally Denton).Shadow of the Eagle , Alfred Knopf, 2006.The Rise and Rise of Robert Gates: The Gates Inheritance .The Rise and Rise of Robert Gates: The World That Made Bob .The Rise and Rise of Robert Gates: The Specialist . 