William E. Leuchtenburg
Author of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940
About the Author
Born in Ridgewood (Queens), New York, William Leuchtenburg is currently William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was educated at Cornell University and at Columbia University, from which he received his Ph.D. in 1951. After teaching briefly show more at Smith College and Harvard University, he began a 30-year tenure on the faculty at Columbia, where he became De Witt Clinton Professor of American History in 1971. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians, the Society of American Historians, and most recently (1991) the American Historical Association. He has also been Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University. Leuchtenburg is an expert on twentieth-century U.S. political history, especially the era of the New Deal. His book Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932--1940 (1963) won both the Bancroft and Parkman prizes. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by William E. Leuchtenburg
Associated Works
I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic Events That Changed America (2006) — Contributor — 265 copies
Forgotten Heroes: Inspiring American Portraits from Our Leading Historians (1999) — Contributor — 109 copies
Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest (1914) — Introduction, some editions — 78 copies
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- Legal name
- Leuchtenburg, William Edward
- Birthdate
- 1922-09-28
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Ridgewood, New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
- Education
- Cornell University
Columbia University - Occupations
- historian
professor - Organizations
- American Historical Association ( [1991])
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Awards and honors
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Award (2008)
Bancroft Prize (1964)
North Carolina Award for Literature (2007)
Phi Beta Kappa
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- Works
- 21
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- 11
- Members
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- Popularity
- #14,279
- Rating
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- ISBNs
- 64
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