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Herbert Feis
1893–1972
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and economist, he helped shape U.S. foreign economic policy before turning major world events into clear, influential history. His books connect diplomacy, war, and economics in a way that still feels vivid and readable.
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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 crossed scholarship and public service. He studied at Harvard, taught economics early in his career, and joined the Council on Foreign Relations before moving into government work.
During the Hoover and Roosevelt years, he served at the U.S. Department of State as an adviser on international economic affairs. That experience gave him a close view of diplomacy and policy, and it later shaped the historical works for which he became best known.
Feis went on to write widely about American foreign policy, World War II, and the origins of the Cold War. He won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for History for Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference, and he remained an important interpreter of twentieth-century international affairs until his death in 1972.