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Warren Professor of History emeritus Frank B. Freidel Jr., a leading historian of 20th century America, died of pneumonia Monday at the Stillman Infirmary...
...Freidel, who lectured at Harvard for 26 years before retiring in 1981, was an expert on the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Freidel published six biographies of the former president, the last in 1990, and was working on a seventh at the time of his death...
...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...
...area that remains unstaffed is 20th century American political history. For 10 years, Harvard has lacked a senior scholar in that field, since Warren Professor of American History Frank B. Freidel Jr., an expert on the New Deal, left for the University of Washington. And course offerings in that field have been sparse since Brinkley's departure...