George Dangerfield

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English-born George Dangerfield (Oxon. 1927), who is now an American citizen, won both the Bancroft and Pulitzer prizes in 1953 for his study of the Monroe-Adams period, The Era of Good Feelings . He is currently at work on an extended biography of Robert Livingston.

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The Steamboat’s Charter Of Freedom | October 1963
GIBBONS v. OGDEN Read >>
If Only Mr. Madison Had Waited— | April 1956
Gambling on a diplomatic coup with a wily Napoleon, he maneuvered America into the needless War of 1812 Read >>
Lord Liverpool And the United States | October 1955
Spokesman for a rising industrialism, this prime minister bid for free trade with the United States and helped to create something quite different Read >>

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