The father of NBA champion Steve Kerr, he was a well known expert on the Middle East. His scholarly works include The Elusive Peace in the Middle East (1975) and The Arab Cold War: Gamel Abd al-Nasr and his Rivals, 1958-1970 (1965). He was a student of international relations and Middle Eastern studies at Princeton, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins. He later taught at the University of California-Los Angeles.
