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Kenneth S. Davis | |
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Born | September 29, 1912 Salina, Kansas, U.S. |
Died | June 10, 1999 Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. | (aged 86)
Occupation | Author, Journalist |
Alma mater | Kansas State University |
Genre | Biography, History |
Notable awards | Francis Parkman Prize |
Kenneth Sydney Davis (September 29, 1912 – June 10, 1999) was an American historian and university professor, most renowned for his series of biographies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.[1] Davis also wrote biographies of Charles Lindbergh, Adlai Stevenson, and authored the first biography of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, entitled Dwight D. Eisenhower: Soldier of Democracy.