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Joseph Allan Nevins [1] (May 20, 1890 – March 5, 1971) was an American historian and journalist, known for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller, as well as his public service.
- Mary Fleming Richardson
- Columbia University
- Joseph Allan Nevins, May 20, 1890, Camp Point, Illinois, U.S.
Alan Nevins, President. Alan Nevins started his book career working for the famed super agent Irving "Swifty" Lazar. In 1993, Nevins founded Renaissance Literary & Talent with two Hollywood based literary agents and the agency thrived. In 1995, Renaissance acquired the Irving Paul Lazar Agency and its extensive backlist after a year of ...
Mar 28, 2024 · Allan Nevins (born May 20, 1890, Camp Point, Illinois, U.S.—died March 5, 1971, Menlo Park, California) was an American historian, author, and educator, known especially for his eight-volume history of the American Civil War and his biographies of American political and industrial figures.
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Feb 20, 2017 · A prolific historian and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize who spent much of his academic career at Columbia University, Nevins produced a body of work that reached a broad popular as well as a scholarly audience.
Allan Nevins was distinguished as a journalist, author, and history professor at Columbia University. His presidential address only lightly hints at the fact that he was noted for having one of the most contested relationships with the organization over which he later presided.
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Mar 6, 1971 · MENLO PARK, Calif., March 5—Allan Nevins, the historian and biographer who won two Pulitzer Prizes and pioneered in the establishment of the oral history movement, died today in a nursing...
Allan Nevins has 420 books on Goodreads with 6538 ratings. Allan Nevins’s most popular book is The War for the Union: The Improvised War, 1861-62.
