Document Type
Finding Aid
Publication Date
4-2023
Abstract
Jean Edward Smith was a noted biographer and the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University. He graduated from Princeton University and earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University. For more than thirty years, he was a professor at the University of Toronto. His biographical subjects included Lucius D. Clay, George W. Bush, Dwight Eisenhower, Ulysses Grant, John Marshall, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Smith won the 2008 Francis Parkman Prize for his biography of Roosevelt and was the 2002 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography or Autobiography for Grant. Jean Edward Smith died on September 1, 2019.
Materials in the collection include correspondence with Bernard Brodie, George W. Bush, Lucius D. Clay, Eleanor Lansing Dulles, John Kenneth Galbraith, Harold MacMillan, and Llewellyn Thompson; articles, books, and speeches written by Jean Edward Smith; book reviews of his publications; the handwritten/typed manuscript for his biography of President George W. Bush; his personal book collection, including reunion publications for Princeton University and Harvard Law School; and documents relating to his tenure at Marshall University.
Rights
Special collections material is obtained from many sources and is intended primarily for research and educational purposes. Certain works may be protected by copyright, trademark, or related interests not governed by the department. It is up to the researcher to verify that they have permission to use these materials for publication or other activities.
Accession Number
2023/04.0891
Access and Use
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Special Collections, Morrow Library
Marshall University
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Recommended Citation
Jean Edward Smith Collection, 1916-2015, Accession No. 2023/04.0891, Special Collections Department, Marshall University, Huntington, WV.
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European History Commons, Military History Commons, Political Science Commons, United States History Commons
