Julie M. Fenster
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Julie M. Fenster is an American
author
of historical articles and books focusing on nineteenth century events and personages.
She stars in a TV commercial for Cheapbooks which will be airing in early 2008. She is shown at a book signing for her work "Race of the Century".
In 2003 she won The Anesthesia Foundation’s 2003 Book/Multimedia Education Award for Ether Day.
In January 2006, she and co-author Douglas Brinkley
released Parish Priest, a biography of Father Michael J. McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus
.
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of historical articles and books focusing on nineteenth century events and personages.
She stars in a TV commercial for Cheapbooks which will be airing in early 2008. She is shown at a book signing for her work "Race of the Century".
In 2003 she won The Anesthesia Foundation’s 2003 Book/Multimedia Education Award for Ether Day.
In January 2006, she and co-author Douglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkley is an American author, professor of history at Rice University and a fellow at the James Baker Institute for Public Policy. Brinkley is the history commentator for CBS News and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair...
released Parish Priest, a biography of Father Michael J. McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus
Knights of Columbus
The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization. Founded in the United States in 1882, it is named in honor of Christopher Columbus....
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Notable works
- Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It (2001)
- Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine: The Pioneers Who Risked Their Lives to Bring Medicine into the Modern Age (2003)
- Race of the Century: The Heroic True Story of the 1908 New York to Paris Auto Race (2006)
- The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President (2007)
- FDR's Shadow: Louis Howe, the Force That Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (2009)
External links
- Julie M. Fenster web site http://www.jfenster.com/
- The Ether Controversy: Milestone in American Medicine; review/criticism; http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0028-4866(200209)75%3A3%3C487%3ATECMIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X
- Anesthesia Foundation; 2003 award/recognition; http://www.asahq.org/Newsletters/2004/01_04/asaNews01_04.html
- Fenster's web page at HarperCollins http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/19994/Julie_Fenster/index.aspx
- Interview on The Case of Abraham Lincoln at the Pritzker Military LibraryPritzker Military LibraryThe Pritzker Military Library is a research library for the study of military history in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded in 2003 by COL James N. Pritzker, IL ARNG to be a non-partisan institution for the study of "the citizen soldier as an essential element for the preservation of...