Publisher's Synopsis
Herbert Feis (June 7, 1893 - March 2, 1972) was an American historian, author, and economist who was the Economic Advisor for International Affairs to the US Department of State in the Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt administrations. Feis wrote at least 13 published books and won the annual Pulitzer Prize for History in 1961 for one of them, Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference (Princeton University Press, 1960), which features the Potsdam Conference and the origins of the Cold War. Feis was an instructor at Harvard University (1920-1921), an associate professor of economics at the University of Kansas (1922-1925), and a professor and department head at the University of Cincinnati (1926-1929).
