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ⓘ About H.R. McMaster
H.R. McMaster is an author and a former United States Army lieutenant general who has since retired. His full name is Herbert Raymond McMaster. Born July 24, 1962, H.R. has served as the 25th United States National Security Advisor for a year from 2017 to 2018. He has also had important roles in Operation Enduring Freedom, the Gulf War, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was born in Philadelphia and graduated in 1984 from the United States Military Academy. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned his Ph.D in the subject of American History in 1996. He wrote a dissertation that would become the foundation of his book Dereliction of Duty. The book hit the top of the New York Times bestsellers charts and continues to be read throughout the U.S. military.
All Book Series by H.R. McMaster
Essential Guide to Lt. General HerbertMcMaster, National Security Advisor
Book 4 of 7 · published 2017
The Munk Debates: Volume One
Series opener · book 1 of 20 · published 2010 Anthology · Rudyard Griffiths
Hitchens vs. Blair
Book 2 of 20 · published 2011 Anthology · Christopher Hitchens
Does the 21st Century Belong to China?
Book 3 of 20 · published 2011 Anthology · Henry Kissinger
North America’s Lost Decade
Book 4 of 20 · published 2012 Anthology · Ian Bremmer,Paul Krugman,David Rosenberg,Lawrence H. Summers
Has the European Experiment Failed?
Book 5 of 20 · published 2012 Anthology · Niall Ferguson
Can the World Tolerate an Iran with Nuclear Weapons?
Book 6 of 20 · published 2013 Anthology · Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Should We Tax the Rich More?
Book 7 of 20 · published 2013 Anthology · Rudyard Griffiths,Paul Krugman
Are Men Obsolete?: The Munk Debate on Gender
Book 8 of 20 · published 2014 Anthology · Camille Paglia,Caitlin Moran,Maureen Dowd,Hanna Rosin
Has Obama Made the World a More Dangerous Place?
Book 9 of 20 · published 2015 Anthology · Bret Stephens
The 2015 Canadian Federal Election Debate on Foreign Policy
Book 10 of 20 · published 2015 Anthology · Steven Harper,Justin Trudeau,Thomas Mulcair
Should the West Engage Putin’s Russia?
Book 11 of 20 · published 2015 Anthology · Garry Kasparov
Do Humankind’s Best Days Lie Ahead?
Book 12 of 20 · published 2016 Anthology · Alain de Botton,Steven Pinker,Matt Ridley,Malcolm Gladwell
Can Donald Trump Make America Great Again?
Book 13 of 20 · published 2016 Anthology · Newt Gingrich
The Global Refugee Crisis
Book 14 of 20 · published 2016 Anthology · Mark Steyn
Is This the End of the Liberal International Order?
Book 15 of 20 · published 2017 Anthology · Rudyard Griffiths
Is American Democracy in Crisis?
Book 16 of 20 · published 2018 Anthology · Kimberley Strassel
Political Correctness
Book 17 of 20 · published 2018 Anthology · Jordan B. Peterson
The Rise of Populism
Book 18 of 20 · published 2019 Anthology · Rudyard Griffiths
China and the West
Book 19 of 20 · published 2019 Co-authored · Rudyard Griffiths,Michael Pillsbury,Kishore Mahbubani,Huiyao Wang
Future of Capitalism
Latest in the series · book 20 of 20 · published 2021 Anthology · Rudyard Griffiths
Counterinsurgency Leadership in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond
Single-title series · published 2011
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is H.R. McMaster?
H.R. McMaster is an author and a former United States Army lieutenant general who has since retired. His full name is Herbert Raymond McMaster. Born July 24, 1962, H.R. has served as the 25th United States National Security Advisor for a year from 2017 to 2018.
Which H.R. McMaster series should I start with?
The best place to start is The Munk Debates series, the earliest of H.R. McMaster's multi-book series: it opens with The Munk Debates: Volume One (2010) and runs to 20 books across 2010–2021, ending with Future of Capitalism (2021).
How many books has H.R. McMaster written?
H.R. McMaster has 28 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1997 and 2024. 20 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being The Munk Debates series with 20 books — and 8 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should H.R. McMaster's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. H.R. McMaster's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Munk Debates (2010–2021, 20 books).
How are H.R. McMaster's books organised into series?
This guide splits H.R. McMaster's 28 books into 1 named series and 8 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Munk Debates (20 books, 2010–2021).