Furnas, J C

Furnas, J C
▪ 2002

      American author and social historian (b. Nov. 24, 1905, Indianapolis, Ind.—d. June 3, 2001, Stanton, N.J.), published a noted social history of the U.S. The three-volume work included The Americans: A Social History of the United States, 1587–1914 (1969), Great Times: An Informal Social History of the United States, 1914–1929 (1974), and Stormy Weather (1977), covering the years 1929–45. Furnas, a prolific contributor to newspapers and magazines, wrote one of the most widely circulated articles in history, “. . . And Sudden Death,” about driving fatalities and the need for automobile safety; some eight million reprints were issued after the article was originally published in Reader's Digest in August 1935. Furnas's autobiography, My Life in Writing: Memoirs of a Maverick, appeared in 1989.

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