Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl (June 7, 1928 – September 13, 1996) was an American historian.
Born in New York to Jewish Hungarian immigrant parents,
he had an academic career encompassing
Harvard
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,
Princeton
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and
New York University
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, focusing on
French politics
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, particularly those of the
Fifth French Republic
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The Fifth Republic emerged from the collapse of the Fourth Re ...
, and on the political career of
Charles de Gaulle
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.
He married Sandy Walcott in 1964, but their marriage was dissolved in 1988. The same year, he married British artist
Charlotte Johnson, the former wife of
Stanley Johnson, and the daughter of
Sir James Fawcett; through her, he was the stepfather of
Boris,
Rachel
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and
Jo and Leo Johnson.
He died of cancer in London, at the age of 68.
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References
External links
Nicholas Wahl Papers
at New York University Archives
1928 births
1996 deaths
20th-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent
Jewish American historians
Harvard University alumni
Harvard University faculty
New York University faculty
Princeton University faculty
20th-century American male writers
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