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Title: Elie Abel Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1941-1978
Collection number: 84035
Creator:
Abel, Elie
Collection Size:
8 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box
(3.75 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Speeches and writings, radio and television broadcast transcripts, correspondence, and printed matter, relating to world politics
and to the press. Includes photocopies of drafts of and correspondence relating to the book by E. Abel,
The Missile Crisis (1966). Also includes drafts of the book by E. Abel and W. Averell Harriman,
Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946 (1975); letters and memoranda by Harriman; and photocopies of wartime dispatches to Harriman, all used in writing the book.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Collection open for research.
For copyright status, please contact
the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Elie Abel Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Journalism--United States.
World politics--1945-
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history.
World War, 1939-1945--United States.
United States--Foreign relations.
Journalists.
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
Cuba.
| 1920, Oct. 17 | Born, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| 1941 | Reporter, Windsor (Ontario) Star |
| 1945-1946 | Assistant City Editor, Montreal Gazette |
| 1946-1947 | Foreign Correspondent, North American Newspaper Alliance, Berlin, Germany |
| 1947-1949 | United Nations Correspondent, Overseas News Agency |
| 1949-1959 | Washington Correspondent and Foreign Correspondent, New York Times |
| 1959-1961 | Washington Bureau Chief, Detroit News |
| 1965-1967 | London Bureau Chief, NBC |
| 1966 | Author, The Missile Crisis |
| 1967-1969 | Diplomatic Correspondent, NBC News, Washington |
| 1969-1979 | Godfrey Lowell Cabot Professor, Columbia University, N.Y.C.
Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, N.Y.C. |
| 1971 | Author (with Marvin Kalb), Roots of Involvement: The U.S. in Asia, 1784-1971 |
| 1975 | Author (with Averell Harriman), Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946 |
| 1979- | Harry and Norman Chandler Professor, Stanford University, California |