Herbert Feis was an American

United States

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 Author

Author

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 and former Economic Advisor for International Affairs to the Department of State in the Hoover

Herbert Hoover

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 and Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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 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.

Biography

Feis was born and raised on the lower east side of New York

New York

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 and graduated from Harvard University

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. He went on to marry the granddaughter of James Garfield

James Garfield

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, the 20th president of the US.