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William E. Leuchtenburg, Scholar of F.D.R. and the Presidency, Dies at 102

Par : Sewell Chan
His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and shaped the postwar years.

© Dan Sears/U.N.C.-Chapel Hill

William E. Leuchtenburg in 2009 at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He helped shape America’s conception of its past during the prosperous 1950s and ’60s.

‘Dean of American Historians’: Ken Burns on William E. Leuchtenburg

One was a filmmaker, the other a scholarly adviser (who sometimes appeared on camera), and the two became close friends, working together for more than 40 years.
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