Alex N. Dragnich

Born on 22 February 1912, he was the son of Serbian immigrants from Montenegro,[1] who had a homestead in Ferry County in the State of Washington.

For the next two years, he did graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley where he obtained his doctorate in 1942 but wartime service delayed his Ph.D. until 1945.

[citation needed] During the Second World War Dragnich served as a foreign affairs analyst for the Department of Justice and the Office of Strategic Services.

[2] In 1950 he became was a professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he spent more than a quarter century before taking his retirement.

[3] He carried out various studies on the Balkans, including critical works on characters and personages such as Josip Broz Tito[4][5][1] and Nikola Pašić.