Historian (23-Feb-1904 — 28-Dec-1993)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Stanley Cloud; Lynne Olson. The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1996. 466pp.

William L. Shirer. 20th Century Journey: A Memoir of the Life and Times. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1976, 1984, 1990. (3 vols.) 510pp. + 654pp. + 484pp. Volume I: The Start, 1904-1939. Volume II: The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940. Volume III: A Native's Return, 1945-1988.

PARALLELS

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

7. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.645)

8. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1343)

9. Webster's American Biographies (p.945)

10. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.688)

11. Twentieth Century Authors, First Supplement (p.906)

12. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.942)

13. A Biographical Dictionary of World War II (p.172)

14. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.666)

15. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.4, pp.384-86)

16. Biographical Dictionary of the Left (vol.1, p.540)

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