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Victoria C. Gardner Coates

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Victoria C. Gardner Coates

VICTORIA C. GARDNER COATES is a cultural historian who received her Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance art from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in The Sixteenth-Century Journal, Gazette des Beaux-Arts and Renaissance Studies. As the director of research in the office of Donald Rumsfeld, Dr. Coates provided editorial support for his best-selling memoir Known and Unknown. She has served as a senior fellow at the Commonwealth Foundation, an adjunct fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and a consulting curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art. She is currently a senior staff member for national security at the United States Senate and the senior advisor for foreign policy for Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign. Dr. Coates lives in Philadelphia with her husband, two children and two dogs.

Titles by this Author

  • David’s Sling

    David’s Sling

    A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art
    Victoria C. Gardner Coates

    David’s Sling places into context ten canonical works of art executed to commemorate the successes of free societies that exerted political and economic influence far beyond what might have been expected of them.

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  • The Battle for the Jewish State

    The Battle for the Jewish State

    How Israel—And America—Can Win
    Victoria C. Gardner Coates

    Why does Israel exist? Why is it worthy of remaining a critical ally of the United States? Why have critical race theorists identified Israel and the U.S. as the most pernicious examples of “settler colonialism”? In The Battle for the Jewish State, Victoria Coates shows how the current conflict in Israel is not a regional issue to be resolved through an interminable diplomatic peace process. Rather, it is a broader military and cultural war that must be won for the sake not only of Israel, but of the United States.

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    • Available 12/10/24
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