Stanley hirshson

  • STANLEY P. HIRSHSON is Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York, and the author of Farewell to the Bloody Shirt: Northern Republicans and the Southern Negro, He lives in Closter, New Jersey.
  • Professor Stanley Hirshson of the Queens College history department died on December 26, Stanley joined the department in and.
  • Stanley Hirshson is a history professor and author whose writings center on historical topics and biographies.

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    Stanley Hirshson ()

    Professor Stanley Hirshson of the Queens College history department died on December 26, Stanley joined the department in and quickly established himself as one of its leading scholars. He had already published his first book, Farewell to the Bloody Shirt, a study of post-Reconstruction Republican Party politics. He would go on to publish four more books. Early in his career, he published biographies of Grenville Dodge and Brigham Young. Later, he published biographies of General William Sherman and General George Patton. The latter, the definitive biography of the controversial general, brought him well-deserved national attention with several television appearances on book discussion shows. Within the department, Stanley was a dedicated teacher. He was especially good in his undergraduate and graduate seminars in introducing students to the joys and intricacies of historical research. As a result more graduate students chose to work under him on their

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    Hirshson, Stanley Philip

    PERSONAL: Born June 8, , in Brooklyn, NY; son of Morris and Rose (Gallant) Hirshson; married Claire Shibon, November 21, ; children: Scott Garad. Education: Rutgers University, A.B., ; Columbia University, M.A., , Ph.D.,

    ADDRESSES: Home—Y Garden Terrace, North Arlington, NJ

    CAREER: Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, lecturer, ; Paterson State College, Wayne, NJ, assistant professor, ; Queens College, Flushing, NY, associate professor, beginning Military service: U.S. Army,

    AWARDS, HONORS: Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, ; fellow, Guggenheim ; fellow, Rockefeller Foundation, ; fellow, Andrew W. Mellon,

    WRITINGS:

    Farewell to the Bloody Shirt, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN),

    Grenville M. Dodge, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN),

    The Lion of the Lord; A Biography of Brigham Young, Knopf (New York, NY),

    The White Tecumseh: A Biography of General WilliamT. Sherman, J. Wiley (New Y

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    Sources Review of Stanley P. Hirshson&#;s Lion of the Lord

    Several years ago when I first heard that someone was doing research on the life of Brigham ung I was most elated, and somewhat envious. Of all the nineteenth-century Mormon leaders, he seemed to me the one of whom the best biography could be written. Possibilities for biographies of earlier leaders of the Mormon movement were limited bygd a lack of source material, and of the leaders of the Utah period, Brigham was certainly the most colorful. Moreover there was a wealth of source material on him. Regretfully, it fryst vatten clear in Lion of the Lord that Stanley P. Hirshson does not understand the nineteenth-century Mormon movement or Brigham Young. 

    Lion of the Lord has a massive bibliography, but primary source material fryst vatten notably absent from it. In his preface Mr. Hirshson states that he received no encouragement from the L.D.S. Church Historian&#;s Office, and after consulting several Mormon scholars—who he does not