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About James Ford Rhodes
James Ford Rhodes, was an American industrialist and historian born in Cleveland, Ohio. After earning a fortune in the iron, coal, and steel industries by 1885, he retired from business to devote time to historical research. He wrote a seven-volume history of the United States from 1850, initially published from 1893 to 1906 with an eighth volume added in 1920. Another book, A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 (1918), won the second-ever Pulitzer Prize for History.
Everything about James Ford Rhodes →- Occupation
- historian, writer, businessperson
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 1, 1848
- Died
- January 22, 1927