Authors

Reuven Frank (1920-2006), who later served two stints as president of NBC News, was on hand for the turmoil at Logan Airport as a young newswriter. “I was one of the few, ” he says, “who doubted it was a clogged fuel line. Throughout, I felt like a kid with an all-points pass to the circus. ”

“U William C. Franz is a free-lance writer, specializing in the history of New York City and environs, and a co-founder of the Fort Wadsworth Museum on Staten Island.

Richard A. R. Fraser, M.D., is a professor of surgery (neurosurgery) at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. He wishes to thank his three fellow researchers on the article: Aaron Zelman, Dirke Brunner, and James Dana.

Irwin F. Fredman was an instructor in the humanities at Hobart College in upstate New York as well as an advertising man on Madison Avenue.It was while he was studying the machinations of Harry Sinclair of Teapot Dome fame that Fredman first came upon the parallels that he explores in this essay.

Sally Mott Freeman is the author of The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family's Quest to Bring Him Home. Ms. Freeman was a speechwriter and media and public relations executive for twenty-five years. She is currently Board Chair Emerita of The Writer’s Center, the premier independent literary center in the mid-Atlantic. 

Frank Freidel is professor of history at Stanford University, and is working on an extensive biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, of which two volumes have been published. The above article is a paper, slightly abridged, which he delivered at the meeting of the American Historical Association.

Stephen Fried is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author who teaches at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. Most recently he authored Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father (Broadway Books). Fried also is the author of the historical biography Appetite for America, and the co-author, with Congressman Patrick Kennedy, of A Common Struggle. His earlier books include the biography Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia and the investigative books Bitter Pills and The New Rabbi. 

Robert Friedman’s article on historical archaeology appeared in our August/September 1983 issue.

Otto Friedrich’s most recent article for American Heritage was “ Traveling with a Sense of History ,” April 1987. He is a senior writer at Time magazine.

Will Friedwald is the jazz reviewer for the New York Sun and the author of seven books on music and popular culture.

Robert Froman is the author of The Nerve of Some Animals and One Million Islands for Sale . He contributed “The Red Ghost” to the April, 1961, issue of AMERICAN HERITAGE . For further reading: Plants, Man and Life , by Edgar Anderson (Little, Brown, 1952); Agricultural Origins and Dispersals , by Carl O. Sauer (American Geographical Society, 1952).

Thomas Froncek, a frequent contributor to AMERICAN HERITAGE , has traveled the route of the Donners. A free-lance writer and editor, he is the author of many magazine articles and Voices from the Wilderness: The Frontiersman’s Own Story (1974).

In 1950, Annette Riley Fry married Varian Fry, an American journalist who ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Fry's grandfather had spent many years as the western agent of the Society, shepherding abandoned and orphaned New York children to new homes in the west on the "Orphan Trains.

Lawrence H. Fuchs is Jaffee Professor of American Civilization and Politics and chairman of the department of American studies at Branden University. Among the many books he has written is John F. Kennedy and American Catholicism (Meredith Press, 1967). He wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Dan Fenn and Sylvie Turner of the John F. Kennedy Library in making certain papers and documents available for use in this article.

Dr. Claude Moore Fuess, headmaster emeritus of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, is a schoolmaster by profession to whom biography is a hobby. He is the author of distinguished lives of Caleb Gushing, Daniel Webster, Rufus Choate, Calvin Coolidge, and other American political figures. He lives in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. This article was originally prepared for and read at a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society on January 9, 1958.

Bob Fulton is the author of The Summer Olympics: A Treasury of Legends and Lore , recently published by Diamond Communications, South Bend, Indiana.

—Alan Furst’s most recent novel is The World at Night .

J. C. Fumas, who lives in Lebanon, New Jersey, is the author of Goodbye to Uncle Tom , a study of the impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the United States. This article is based on Mr. Furnas’ research for a forthcoming book entitled The Road to Harpers Ferry .

Neal Gabler is the author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. His Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity has just been published by Knopf.

—John Kenneth Galbraith’s new book is Letters to Kennedy .

Mr. Gallagher, an established writer of both fiction and nonfiction, discovered the gruesome events described above while doing research for a history of Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. His book, to be published by Harcourt, Brace & World in October to commemorate the medical school’s two-hundredth anniversary, will be called The Doctors’ Story .

Robert S. Gallagher, (1934-2002) was frequent contributor to American Heritage , and the editor of the Green Bay Press-Gazette in the 1970's and 1980's. After retiring in 1996, Gallagher returned to journalism in 2000 becoming the first editor of CityTalk, a biweekly magazine in Chicago.

Thanks to James H. Bunn, Walter Burns, James M. ElHs, Emmett W. Fowler, Jr., I.J. Galantin (from Take Her Deep! ), Pips and Ruth Harris, William Herring, Harold Lang, and Stan Valentine for their remembrances of the mascots on their submarines.

Richard M. Gamble is a professor of history and holds the Anna Margaret Ross Alexander Chair in History and Politics at Hillsdale College. His most recent book is the first intellectual and religious biography of Julia Ward Howe, A Fiery Gospel: The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the Road to Righteous War (Cornell University Press).

Virginia Leddy Gambrell was and archivist and museum director. Born in Greenville, Texas, she attended the University of Texas, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree, and then enrolled in Southern Methodist University in 1934. Ms. Gambrell was first paid employee of the Dallas Historical Society, holding the position as archivist until 1948, when she became the director of the Hall of State at Fair Park. She and her husband Herbert P. Gambrell wrote A Pictorial History of Texas (1960), which received the Summerfield G. Roberts Award for the best Texas book of the year.

Wayne Gard is an editorial writer for the Dallas Morning News and a contributor to various magazines. He is the author of four books; the most recent is The Chisholm Trial .

Richard M. Gardella is of counsel at the firm of Bertine, Hufnagel, Headley, Zeltner, Drummond, and Dohn in Scarsdale, New York.  A former journalist, Mr. Gardella is editor-in-chief of Westchester Lawyer, the monthly magazine of the Westchester County Bar Association, the ABA’s State and Local Government Law Section as well as the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility. Mr. Gardella concentrates his practice in the areas of municipal and land use law, and appellate litigation. He served as Village Attorney for the Village of Scarsdale from 1983 to 1999 and as Corporation Counsel for the City of Rye from 1981 to 1999.  He also has served as an assistant corporation counsel and later as a special counsel for the City of White Plains.   

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Mark Lee Gardner is the author of To Hell on a Fast Horse and Shot All to Hell, which received multiple awards, including a Spur Award from Western Writers of America. An authority on the American West, Gardner has appeared on PBS’s American Experience, as well as on the History Channel, the Travel Channel, and on NPR. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, True West, Wild West, American Cowboy, and New Mexico Magazine. He lives with his family in Cascade, Colorado.

Martin Gardner, who writes a, column on mathematical games in the Scientific American, has annotated several well-loved texts, most notably Alice in Wonderland (The Annotated Alice) . His newest contribution is The Annotated Casey At The Bat , from which this article is taken. It will be published this autumn by Clarkson N. Potter.

The late John A. Garraty was one of America’s foremost historians, a Contributing Editor of American Heritage for nearly 30 years, and Chairman of the History Department of Columbia University, where he taught for forty 40 years. Prof. Garraty was most famous for editing the 24-volume reference work American National Biography, which tells the story of the U.S. through the life histories of 17,450 of its citizens. Prof. Garraty was the author of dozens of books including Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson: A Great Life in Brief, and The Great Depression. He was also the author, with Mark C. Carnes, of The American Nation, a widely used college textbook now in its 13th edition. From 1969 to 1971, he served as president of the Society of American Historians. Photo courtesy of Dan Hogan Charles / New York Times

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Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett is director of Sotheby’s Educational Studies in New York City.

Michael Gartner is an author, journalist, lawyer, businessman, and third generation newspaperman. In 1997, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorials about community issues that he wrote for the Daily Tribune, Ames Iowa. Over his long career in journalism Gartner has served a variety of roles in the news media field:

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, and the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. He recently completed The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader (Basic Civitas Books, 2012), a collection of essays on history, culture, and African-American genealogy. Gates has hosted several PBS television miniseries, including the history and travel program Wonders of the African World and the biographical African American Lives and Faces of America.

General Gavin commanded the famous 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. His On to Berlin, from which AMERICAN HERITAGE excerpted a section in our April/May, 1978, issue, was published last year.

Timothy Gay is a Senior Strategist at LEVICK Communications and an author writing about a variety of topics from military to baseball history.

Rear Adm. Leslie E. Gehres was the World War ll captain of the aircraft carrier Franklin, the “ship that would not die.”

Mark Gelfand has long served as a professor of history at Boston College, focusing on issues of modern American urban development and policy. He is the author of A Nation of Cities: The Federal Government and Urban America, 1933–1965 and Trustee for a City: Ralph Lowell of Boston. After earning his B.A. at the College of the City of New York, Gelfand earned an M.A. at Harvard University and a Ph. D. at Columbia University. He worked as an acting assistant professor of history at University of California, Berkeley, from 1972 to 1974. He is currently writing a biography of Judge Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. (1906-1986), who sat in the Federal District Court in Boston from 1942 until his death.   

Marvin Gelfand (d. 2011) was a historian of New York City life. Born in Brooklyn, he lectured, consulted and led walking tours about the city of New York and for many years.

Mr. Genini teaches California history at a Fresno high school and has published several articles on California history topics.

Nat Gertler, a freelance writer, is the founder and author of AAUGH.com, a comprehensive resource for Peanuts collectors and fans. Gertler is an avid Charles Schultz fan, and has appeared in numerous theatre productions and a few motion pictures. Gertler attended Bard College at Simon's Rock: The Early College, and was a nominee for the Eisner award in 1999.