My guest is Julie M. Fenster, biographer and historian. Our subject is Louis McHenry Howe, and how he influenced the course of American history with his dedication and friendship with the Roosevelt’s.

         

Julie Fenster at the FDR Library,  and the Summer Bookfest at Hyde Park, NY

Julie M. Fenster is an author and historian who began her career at Automobile Quarterly, where her book Packard: The Pride won the Best Book award from the National Automotive Journalism Conference. The author of six additional books on a wide range of historical topics, she has written for American Heritage, the New York Times, and American History.
Her previous book, Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America’s Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It, received the Anesthesia Foundation Award for best book of 2001. Fenster graduated from Colgate University and lives in upstate New York, where she drives her sports car on roads that trace the route of the 1908 New York to Paris Auto Race.She has starred in a TV commercial for Cheapbooks which was aired in early 2008. She is shown at a book signing for her work "Race of the Century." In 2003 she won The Anesthesia Foundation’s 2003 Book/Multimedia Education Award for Ether Day. In January 2006, she and co-author Douglas Brinkley released Parish Priest, a biography of Father Michael J. McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus..
She is also a regular contributor to American Heritage, Fenster has also written for the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. She has appeared on NPR and C-Span, among others. Below is a list of her books

 • Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It (2001)
 • Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine: The Pioneers Who Risked Their Lives to Bring Medicine into the Modern Age (2003)
 • Race of the Century: The Heroic True Story of the 1908 New York to Paris Auto Race (2006)
 • The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President (2007)
 • FDR's Shadow: Louis Howe, the Force That Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (2009)

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