Press, 1997 . Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator, Free Press, 1999 . How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It, Three Rivers Press 2002 . To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World, HarperCollins, 2004 . Gandhi and Churchill:The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, Bantam, 2008 . Freedom's Forge: How American Business produced victory in World War II, 2012 Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior, Random House, 2016 . The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021 References External links Booknotes interview with Herman on Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator, February 6, 2000. C-SPAN Q&A interview with Herman talking about his book, Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior, May 24, 2016. Biographical profile, Hudson Institute. Guide to the Arthur Herman papers, 1950–1999, George Mason Universities Libraries 1956 births 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Living people Smithsonian Institution people Johns Hopkins University alumni Catholic University of America faculty Georgetown University faculty George Mason University faculty Hudson Institute American male non-fiction writers