author
Allan Chase
1913–1993
Best known for blending investigative history with social criticism, this American writer tackled subjects ranging from fascism in the Americas to the long fight over vaccination. He also crossed into television, helping create the long-running soap opera Days of Our Lives.
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The Five Arrows
by Allan Chase
About the author
Born in New York City in 1913, Allan Chase was an American writer and independent scholar whose work moved easily between politics, science, and popular culture. His books included Falange: The Axis Secret Army in the Americas (1943), The Five Arrows (1944), The Biological Imperatives (1971), The Legacy of Malthus (1977), and Magic Shots (1982).
One of his best-known books, The Legacy of Malthus, examined the history of scientific racism and won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction in 1978. The range of his subjects shows a writer drawn to big public questions, especially the ways ideas about health, heredity, and social policy can shape real lives.
Chase also worked in television writing and is credited as one of the creators of Days of Our Lives. He died in 1993, leaving behind a body of work that joined research, argument, and storytelling in a way that still feels lively and wide-ranging.