Burton J. Hendrick

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Burton Jesse Hendrick (born December 8, 1870 in New Haven , Connecticut , † March 22, 1949 ) was an American author .

He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 and 1929 with two biographical works on Walter Hines Page . In 1923 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Publications (selection)

  • 1921 Age of Big Business OCLC 254713743
  • 1923 Life and Letters of Walter H. Page OCLC 445369
  • 1923 The Jews in America OCLC 2506511
  • 1924 Biography of William Crawford Gorgas
  • 1928 The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page OCLC 445367
  • 1932 The Life of Andrew Carnegie OCLC 2320333
  • 1935 The Lees of Virginia: Biography of a Family 445163
  • 1937 Bulwark of the republic ;: A biography of the Constitution, Little, Brown and company; 1st edition (1937) OCLC 991896
  • 1939 Statesmen of the Lost Cause: Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet OCLC 428727
  • 1946 Lincoln's War Cabinet OCLC 4024350
  • 1953 Bulwark of the Republic: A Biography of the American Constitution. Translation by Josephine Dworschak with the assistance of Siegmund Speyerer, Zitzmann-Verlag, Lauf near Nuremberg. OCLC 175113334

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes - Columbia University , accessed July 3, 2011.
  2. ^ Members: Burton J. Hendrick. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hendrick, Burton J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hendrick, Burton Jesse (full name); Hendrick, Burton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH New Haven , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1949