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Up for sale a RARE! "Princeton University" Eric F Goldman Signed First Day Cover Dated 1956.
17, 1916 – February 19, 1989) was an American historian, Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University, and
Presidential advisor. Born in Washington, D.C., United States, he was educated in public
schools in Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated from Johns Hopkins University with
a Ph.D. in history at age 22. He wrote on national affairs for TIME magazine. He joined Princeton University as
an assistant professor in 1942. He became a full professor in 1955, until
retirement in 1985. He was special advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1963 to 1966. He served as
president of the Society of American
Historians from 1962 to 1969. From 1959 to 1967, he was the
moderator of the public affairs show The Open Mind,
on NBC. He married Joanna R. Jackson (died 1980). His papers are
held at the Library of Congress, and
the University
of California, Los Angeles.