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Article: A BIOGRAPHY BEFITTING A REMARKABLE MAN.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 6, 2002
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Byline: JAMES E. PERSON JR.
DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN
DAVID E. JOHNSON
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WRITING shortly after the death of Virginia historian Douglas Southall Freeman, Virginius Dabney, editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, stated, ``Dr. Freeman was so many-sided, his capacity for work was so prodigious, and his ability to parcel out his time on a precise schedule for 24 hours of each day so amazing, that he accomplished more in one lifetime than three men could normally do.''
Freeman (1886-1953), longtime editor of Richmond's afternoon newspaper, the News Leader, and Pulitzer-winning biographer of Robert E. Lee and ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Freeman, Douglas Southall
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;
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...Freeman, Douglas Southall (1886–1953), editor of the Richmond News Leader (1915–53), professor of journalism at Columbia, and author of R.E. Lee (4 vols., 1934–35, Pulitzer ...
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