James Thomas Flexner

Historian, Author

1908 – 2003

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Who was James Thomas Flexner?

James Thomas Flexner was an American historian and biographer best known for the four-volume biography of George Washington that earned him a National Book Award in Biography and a special Pulitzer Prize. His one-volume abridgment, Washington: the Indispensable Man was the basis of two television miniseries broadcast in the mid-1980s starring Barry Bostwick as Washington.

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Born
Jan 13, 1908
Manhattan
Parents
Spouses
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Harvard University
    ( - 1929)
Lived in
  • Manhattan
    ( - 2003/02/13)
Died
Feb 13, 2003
Manhattan

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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