Eric Frederick Goldman was an American historian

Historian

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, Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University, and Presidential advisor.

Life

Born in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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, he was educated in public schools in Baltimore

Baltimore

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, he graduated from Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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 with a Ph.D. in history at age 22. He wrote on national affairs for Time magazine. He joined Princeton as an assistant professor in 1942. He became a full professor in 1955, until retirement in 1985. He was special advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

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 from 1963 to 1966.
He served as president of the Society of American Historians from 1962 to 1969. From 1959 to 1967, he was the moderator on a discussion program, The Open Mind, on NBC

NBC

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He married Joanna R. Jackson (died 1980). His papers are held at the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

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, and University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

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Works

• "The White House and the intellectuals", Harper's January 1969

• Rendezvous With Destiny: A History of Modern American Reform, Knopf, 1952 (reprint 25th Anniversary Edition, Vintage, 1977, Ivan R. Dee, 2001, ISBN 9781566633697)
• The Crucial Decade, America 1945-55, Knopf, 1956
• The Crucial Decade - And After, America 1945-60. Vintage Books, 1961, ISBN 9780394701837
• The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, Knopf, 1969

External links

Civil Rights Greensboro: Eric Frederick Goldman