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Julie M. Fenster

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Julie M. Fenster (born November 20, 1957) is an American author of historical articles and books focusing on nineteenth century events and personages.

She stars in a TV commercial for Cheapbooks which will be airing in early 2008. She is shown at a book signing for her work "Race of the Century".

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. In 2009, she published a biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt's early political advisor Louis Howe, titled FDR's Shadow: Louis Howe, the Force that Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. She is the co-author of Debbie Wasserman Schultz's book For the Next Generation: A Wake-Up Call to Solving Our Nation's Problems.

Notable works

  • Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It (2001) ISBN 0060195231
  • Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine: The Pioneers Who Risked Their Lives to Bring Medicine into the Modern Age (2003) ISBN 0786712368
  • Race of the Century: The Heroic True Story of the 1908 New York to Paris Auto Race (2006) ISBN 0609610961
  • The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President (2007) ISBN 140397635X
  • FDR's Shadow: Louis Howe, the Force That Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (2009) ISBN 0230609104

Awards

In 2003, she won The Anesthesia Foundation’s 2003 Book/Multimedia Education Award for Ether Day.

  • Julie M. Fenster web site [1]
  • The Ether Controversy: Milestone in American Medicine; review/criticism; [2]
  • Anesthesia Foundation; 2003 award/recognition; [3]
  • Fenster's web page at HarperCollins [4]
  • Interview on The Case of Abraham Lincoln at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library