Frederick Lewis Allen (1890–1954)

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1. Frederick Lewis Allen

   Author of Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's, Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939, The Big Change: America Transforms Itself 1900-1950

2. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of The Guns of August, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

3. Daniel J. Boorstin

   Author of The Americans: The Colonial Experience, The Americans: The Democratic Experience, The Americans: The National Experience

4. Robert A. Caro

   Author of Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

5. Richard Hofstadter

   Author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it, The Age of Reform, Social Darwinism in American Thought

6. Van Wyck Brooks

   Author of The Flowering of New England, The World of Washington Irving, New England: Indian summer, 1865-1915

7. David Halberstam

   Author of The Best and the Brightest, The Fifties

8. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

   Author of The Age of Jackson, The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. 2)

9. Studs Terkel

   Author of Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
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10. Theodore H. White

    Author of The Making of the President 1960, In Search of History: A Personal Adventure, America in search of itself: The making of the President, 1956-1980

11. Eric Foner

    Author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

12. David M. Kennedy

    Author of Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

13. William Manchester

    Author of American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972

14. Catherine Drinker Bowen

    Author of Miracle At Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May - September 1787, Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family

15. Sinclair Lewis

    Author of Babbitt, Dodsworth

16. John Kenneth Galbraith

    Author of The Great Crash, 1929

17. William L. Shirer

    Author of Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941, The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940

18. Eric Frederick Goldman

    Author of The Crucial Decade - and After: America, 1945-1960

19. Joseph P. Lash

    Author of Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers

20. C. Vann Woodward

    Author of The Strange Career of Jim Crow