Herbert Feis

Herbert Feis (June 7, 1893 – March 2, 1972) was an American non-fiction writer and an Economic Advisor for International Affairs to the U.S. Department of State in the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations.

Feis wrote at least 13 published books and won the annual Pulitzer Prize for History in 1961 for one of them, Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference (Princeton University Press, 1960). It features 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 in New York City and raised on the Lower East Side. His parents, Louis Feis and Louise Waterman Feis, were Jewish immigrants from Alsace, France that came to America in the late 1800s. His uncle invented the Waterman stove. He graduated from Harvard University and went on to marry the granddaughter of James Garfield, the 20th president of the US.

He died in Winter Park, Florida.

Bibliography

• Settlement of Wage Disputes (Macmillan, 1921) – his earliest work in the Library of Congress Catalog
• Seen from E.A.: Three International Episodes (1947)
• The Road to Pearl Harbor (1950)
• The China Tangle (1953)
• Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin (1957)
• Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference (1960)
• Japan Subdued (1961)
• Europe the World's Banker, 1870–1914 (1964 - first published 1930)
• The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II (1966)
• The Spanish Story: Franco and the Nations at War (1966)
• Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin: The War They Waged and the Peace They Sought (1967)
• From Trust to Terror: The Onset of the Cold War, 1945–1950 (1970)
• The Changing Pattern of International Economic Affairs (1971)
• Nineteen Thirty Three: Characters in Crisis (1976)
• Herbert Feis, Wilsonian Internationalism, and America's Technological-Democracy (1993)

External links

• Herbert Feis at Library of Congress, with 37 library catalog records