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Herbert Feis
1893–1972
A historian and economist who moved between government service and scholarship, he wrote influential books on American foreign policy and the origins of the Cold War. His firsthand experience in Washington gave his history writing unusual authority and immediacy.
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The Settlement of Wage Disputes
by Herbert Feis
About the author
Born in New York City in 1893, Herbert Feis built a career that joined economics, public service, and history. He served as the U.S. State Department's adviser on international economic affairs during the Hoover and Roosevelt years, working on major questions of trade and foreign policy at a crucial moment in world affairs.
After his government service, he became widely known for writing diplomatic history shaped by both scholarship and experience. Much of his work focused on World War II, peace negotiations, and the early Cold War, subjects he approached with a close understanding of how policy was actually made.
Feis won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1961 for Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference. He died in 1972, leaving behind a body of work that helped many readers understand how economics, diplomacy, and power shaped the modern world.