Allan Nevins

Joseph Allan Nevins (1890–1971) was an American historian and journalist renowned for his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage (1932) and Hamilton Fish: The Inner Story of the Grant Administration (1936), as well as his eight-volume Ordeal of the Union on the Civil War, which earned the Bancroft Prize and National Book Awards. He pioneered oral history at Columbia University, authored over 50 books on business and political figures like John D. Rockefeller and Henry Ford, and served as president of the American Historical Association, Society of American Historians, and American Academy of Arts and Letters.