Harold William "Bill" Rood (August 19, 1922 – October 6, 2011) was a political scientist and author of Kingdoms of the Blind.
He was Professor Emeritus at Claremont McKenna College and taught international relations and national security affairs beginning in 1962.
[2] Rood was an infantryman in George S. Patton's Third Army in World War II and took part in the Rhineland and Central Europe campaigns.
Published in 1980, Kingdoms of the Blind examines war, the Soviet crackdown in Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and other European models to explain how great democracies have resumed the follies that so nearly cost them their life.
"[3] Peter W. Schramm, a former student, described Rood as a "great teacher" who "didn't simply grab the truth as it revealed itself in front of him.