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Burns, James MacGregor

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Personal name headingBurns, James MacGregor
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Variant(s)Burns, James M., Master Sergeant
Birth date1918-08-03
Death date2014-07-15
Place of birthMelrose (Mass.)
Place of deathWilliamstown (Mass.)
Field of activityPolitical science
AffiliationWilliams College
Profession or occupationCollege teachers
Special noteFormerly on duplicate record: no2006000111
Found inA grand strategy for America, 1942.
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1918)
New York times, viewed July 15, 2014 (James MacGregor Burns, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and political scientist who wrote voluminously about the nature of leadership in general and the presidency in particular, died on Tuesday [July 15, 2014] at his home in Williamstown, Mass. He was 95. Mr. Burns, who taught at Williams College for most of the last half of the 20th century, was the author of more than 20 books; he was born on Aug. 3, 1918, in Melrose, Mass.)
Okinawa: the last battle, 2005: preface (M/Sgt. James M. Burns, Tenth Army combat historian during WWII)
Okinawa: the last battle [ER], 2013 : title page (James M. Burns)
WIkipedia, May 10, 2018 (James MacGregor Burns (August 3, 1918 in Melrose, MA-July 15, 2014 in Williamstown, MA) was an American historian and political scientist, presidential biographer, and authority on leadership studies. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army as a combat historian in the Pacific theater.)
Associated languageeng
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