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A Study Of Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman On The Elections Of 1936 And 1940, Betty Sanford Molster
A Study Of Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman On The Elections Of 1936 And 1940, Betty Sanford Molster
Honors Theses
Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman was the Virginia-born editor of The Richmond News Leader from 1915 to 1949. He is also widely known as the author of several historical works--notably a biography of R.E. Lee for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1934, and a biography of George Washington which he had not quite finished at the time of his death in 1953.
This thesis is an attempt to discuss the views held by Dr. Freeman on the Presidential elections of 1936 and 1940. The only source of information used was his editorials during those two years. I have attempted …