Word: freidel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What I found striking about him as a scholar is the wide range of his interest, though this may sound strange about someone who spent his entire life writing a biography of Franklin Roosevelt," said Alan M. Brinkley, a former associate professor of history at Harvard and one of Freidel's best known students...
...Harvard, Freidel taught courses in American history and modern American political thought. He was also the first professor at Harvard to teach a course in Afro-American studies...
...book, written by a Harvard student under Freidel's guidance, later won a National Book Award, Brinkley said...
...Freidel, a child of the Great Depression, was best known for his work about the life of America's longest-serving president...
...Freidel received his bachelors degree from theUniversity of Southern California in 1937 and hisdoctorate from the University of Washington in1942. He taught at various colleges before comingto Harvard...