biography
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| (1899–1978)
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| Historian, born in Petoskey, Michigan, USA. Before becoming America's most popular historian of the Civil War, he worked as a journalist in Boston, Cleveland, and Washington, and held posts with the US Department of Commerce (1945–6, 1948). His best-selling A Stillness at Appomattox (1953) earned him a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1954. Editor of American Heritage Magazine from 1954 until his death, he produced 10 more books on the Civil War, ending with Grant Takes Command (1968). |
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