Harlow Giles Unger, the author of more than two dozen books on education and early American history, died on September 23. He was 94.
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Unger is best known for his biographies of the Founding Fathers and the early U.S. Presidents, including Patrick Henry, John Hancock, Noah Webster, John Marshall, Benjamin Rush, George Washington, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams. He also wrote the three-volume Encyclopedia of American Education. His main publisher was Da Capo Press; many of his titles are available through Hachette.
Unger began his career with the New York Herald Tribune Overseas News Service in Paris before becoming a foreign correspondent and American affairs analyst for the Times, the Sunday Times (London), and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He was also an adjunct associate professor of English and journalism as well as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at George Washington's Mount Vernon.
Retired Da Capo Press publisher John Radziewicz called Unger "one of the imprint's distinguished authors."