Arthur Tourtellot
Arthur Bernon Tourtellot was an American writer, screenwriter and producer best known for the book Lexington and Concord.
History
Arthur Bernon Tourtellot was born July 23, 1913. He was a fellow at Middlebury College in 1938 and was at a writer's conference at the Bread Loaf Campus in 1941. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II.At the end of the war he served as the associate producer of two March of Time documentaries. The first, Crusade in Europe, was based on Dwight D. Eisenhower's book of the same name. He died in October 1977.
Partial bibliography
Non-fiction
- Be Loved No More the Life and Environment of Fanny Burney
- The Charles
- Selections for Today by Woodrow Wilson
- Life’s Picture History of World War II
- An Anatomy of American Politics; Innovation Versus Conservatism
- Lexington and Concord
- William Diamond's Drum: the Beginning of the War of the American Revolution
- Biography of William S. Paley,
- Toward the Well-Being of Mankind, 50 Years of the Rockefeller Foundation
- The Presidents on the Presidency
- The Lost Revolution: The Story of Twenty Years of Neglected Opportunities in Vietnam and of America's Failure to Foster Democracy There
- Benjamin Franklin: The Shaping of Genius, the Boston Years ]
Associate producer
Producer
- ''Crusade in the Pacific''
Screenwriter
Articles
- "History and the Historical Novel Where Fact and Fantasy Meet and Part",
- "Dilemma of a People Adrift",
- "The Early Reading of Benjamin Franklin"
- "Rebels, turn out your dead!—"