A biographer of Eisenhower, Lindbergh, and Adlai Stevenson as well
as a novelist, Kenneth S. Davis was awarded the prestigious Francis
Parkman Prize for FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, which was also a
nominee for the National Book Award. In addition, his next two
volumes on FDR were both chosen as among the ten best books of the
year by "The New York Times."
A graduate of Kansas State University, with a master of science
degree from the University of Wisconsin and an honorary doctorate
of letters from Assumption College, Davis was a journalism
instructor at New York University, a war correspondent attached to
General Eisenhower's headquarters, special assistant to Milton
Eisenhower, the president of Kansas State University, a member of
the State Department's UNESCO relations staff, editor of The
Newberry Library Bulletin in Chicago, adjunct professor of English
at Clark University, and an adjunct professor of history at both
Kansas University and Kansas State University. Kenneth S. Davis
died in June 1999.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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