birth_date: 1893-06-07 00:00:00
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name: Herbert Feis
about: Herbert Feis (born on June 7, 1893, in New York City, died on March 2, 1972, in Winter Park, FL) was an American Author and former Economic Advisor for International Affairs to the Department of State in the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations.Feis was the Author of some 13 books and won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his work, Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference (1960). The book was about the Potsdam Conference and the origins of the Cold War.The Herbert Feis Prize is awarded annually by the American Historical Association, the pre-eminent professional society of historians, to recognize the recent work of public historians or independent scholars.
death_date: 1972-03-02 00:00:00