A historian who has solidified his status among the great President of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a historian of William E. Louichitenburg, has died on Tuesday at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was 102 years old.
His death was confirmed by his friend and colleague John F. Casson.
A multi -craftsman who has been extended for 80 years -his first book, the politics of flood management, appeared in 1953, and the last one was released last year -Mr. helped Americans. Understand the change in the memories of living in their country and the world.
Like Richard Hoffstar of the same era, Edmand, John M. Burm, Arthur M. Schressingger Junior -Life Friends -Loctainburg is a prosperous past of the 1950s and 60's. I shaped the concept of America. His orientation was a large -scale liberal and internationalist, but he responded and responded to Roosevelt's criticism of the new left wing and the conservative movement of the ascendant.
Generally, his masterpieces are “Franklin D. Roosevelt and New Deal, 1932-1940”, published in 1963. From the University of Colombia, he won the Francis Parkman Award by the Bankloft Award and the American Historic Association.
“He has given an office that has lost his fame and power in the past 12 years, far beyond the Ito Roosevelt and Woodlow Wilson, which far exceeded that it has exceeded that,” he said. Burg wrote, the federal government under Franklin Roosevelt, the innovative use of the radio and the newspaper reporter to convey his message, and the Americans comforted them with their sadness. From his abilities that make them feel the kind of trust that usually expresses them for the father who comforted them. “
Louhiitenburg did not put many problems in New Deal aside. I failed to break my unemployment. The United States will enter the World War in 1941 will do that. Urban slum residents and most African Americans. However, he has discovered that a new contract will help to save capitalism and perhaps democracy for experimental and practical spirit, orientation and collective behavior from individualism in the 19th century. 。
The center of the achievement was Roosevelt.
“Roosevelt's importance was not his talent as a player or manipulator,” Louichitenburg wrote. “It's rather, his abilities to evoke the country, and more specifically, the people who served under him, by his wishes, at his wishes, and one of his EU. A word that makes you embarrassed -by his idealism.
His other major books include the “danger of prosperity, 1914-1932” (1958) (1958). This is a transformation from agriculture, moral, and isolated state, an industrial, liberal that is involved in diplomacy itself. ; “Review of the Supreme Court: Constitutional Revolution in the Roosevelt era” (1995), events that have been made by expanding the Roosevelt Court into up to 15 justice for the 1937 constitutional crisis. About. The plan was ultimately defeated, but only after the court shifted law to open the laws that regulate laws.
William Edward Rouchitenburg was born on September 28, 1922 in Ridgewood in Ridgewood, a border of Brooklyn Keins. His mother, Lawretta C (McNamara), has moved from Ireland as an infant. The attractiveness of Young William to Washington came early. At the age of 12, he took 9 hours on a Gray Hound Bus to visit the White House, Capitol, and the recently built Supreme Court.
Louichitenburg grew up in some Queen's districts in Wood Haven, Astoria, Woodside, and Elmhurst, and graduated from New Town High School in Elmhurst in 1939.
In Cornell, he acquired a job cleaning test tube for 30 cents per hour (less than $ 7 today) via the National Youth Bureau, part of the alphabet soup of an institution founded under New Deal. After graduating in 1943, he enrolled in Colombia and gained a doctorate there. 1951.
Louichitenburg taught twice in Colombia for 30 years at the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he was a professor of his death.
He was never trapped in the ivory tower. He was a New England field representative for the National Council for permanently trying to ban racism in federal employment from 1945 to 1946. He served as a representative of the Democratic National Convention held in Chicago in 1952. In 1965, with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., he joined another historian marching to Montgomery, Alabama. He was active in Americans for the liberal and anti -communist groups found by Eleanor Roosevelt.
He also found the time to be the NBC News election analyst. At first, with Anchors Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, then John Chancellor. He joined the lawsuit, stopping Richard M. Nixon from destroying Watergate's tape, preventing Henry A. Secretary of State Kissiner from being isolated the official telephone conversation.
In 1987, Louhiitenburg testified for the Supreme Court in Robert H. Bork. He contributed to the Ken Burns documentary on the Civil War and Baseball, and chose a quote engraved on the granite of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington in 1997.
Jean McKin Tire, Louhiitenburg's first marriage, ended with a divorce. He married Jean An Williams in the mid -1980s. She survived like her first marriage, Christopher, Joshua, and Thomas, with several grandchildren and Great grandchildren.
In his career, Loyktemburg served as the president of the American Historic Organization, the American Historic Association, and the American History Association.
In a presidential speech to the American History Association in 1991, he urged historian to get involved with the public, but urged him to do so. “When we speak and need to select those times wisely, be careful to distinguish between doing so as a historian and simply as a politically active citizen. I won't be blown, “he said.
“Especially, we need to be careful not to create an atmosphere in the classroom. To protect ourselves or silence.”
Leuchtenburg published “The Shadow of FDR” about Roosevelt's heritage for the future president of Roosevelt in 1983, updated the book several times and raised it to President Barak Obama's administration. 。 His last book, President Patriott, from George Washington to John Quincy Adams, appeared in July.
“Nobody in front of Roosevelt has dominated his political culture. If he hadn't been in the White House for a long time in the White House, he said Louichitenburg. I am writing. Expectations that the highest executive will be the main shaper of his times -the expectation that each successor must deal with it. “
He discovered that their successors did not completely match.
“South Carolina's millwarker, once said,” Franklin Roosevelt is the only president we have ever had, who understands my boss is the son of a gun, ” 。 “Obama could not convey the same meaning for some reason. It is not clear for me to make that connection.”
He was just a few weeks after Trump's inauguration, criticized President Trump in early 2017.
“There is really no precedent for the highest executive officer with this kind of temperament. He is very careless about his statement and is right to attack,” he said to the North Carolina website, NC Newsline. “I am not only here, but also from an overseas, but as I know from a letter gained from historians in Europe. I am very alert about how irresponsible a man is.”
He compared Trump with President Nixon. Nixon was forced to resign in the wake of the Watergate Crisis.
“Especially Nixon will sometimes support the” mad theory. ” If he convinces the enemy abroad that he may do almost anything, they may be happy to make concessions. “
The THE TIMES reporter Sewell Chan is an executive editor of Colombian Generism Review. Ash Wu has contributed to the report.
