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Frederick Franklin Schrader

b. 1857

A German-born American journalist and dramatist, he built a lively career in newspapers, theater, and political writing. His work moved between the stage and the public square, giving his books an energetic, argumentative edge.

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"1683-1920" The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them—Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools—Rewriting the History of the United States—The Espionage Act and How It Worked—"Illegal and Indefensible Blockade" of the Central Powers—1,000,000 Victims of Starvation—Our Debt to France and to Germany—The War Vote in Congress—Truth About the Belgian Atrocities—Our Treaty with Germany and How Observed—The Alien Property Custodianship—Secret Will of Cecil Rhodes—Racial Strains in American Life—Germantown Settlement of 1683 and a Thousand Other Topics

"1683-1920" The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them—Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools—Rewriting the History of the United States—The Espionage Act and How It Worked—"Illegal and Indefensible Blockade" of the Central Powers—1,000,000 Victims of Starvation—Our Debt to France and to Germany—The War Vote in Congress—Truth About the Belgian Atrocities—Our Treaty with Germany and How Observed—The Alien Property Custodianship—Secret Will of Cecil Rhodes—Racial Strains in American Life—Germantown Settlement of 1683 and a Thousand Other Topics

by Frederick Franklin Schrader

About the author

Born in Hamburg on October 27, 1857, he later came to the United States with his family and was educated in Davenport, Iowa, and St. Joseph, Missouri, while also receiving academic training in Hamburg. He became known as an American journalist and dramatist, with a career that joined literary interests to public debate.

Schrader worked in journalism and also wrote for the stage. Reference sources credit him with plays and music dramas including The Man from Texas, The Modern Lady Godiva, At the French Ball, Nicolette, and Corsica. That mix of reporting, commentary, and dramatic writing helps explain the range of subjects found in his books.

He is also remembered for political and historical writing, including 1683-1920, a work associated with questions of American society and institutions around the World War I era. Reliable online sources agree that he died in 1943.