Robert V. Remini, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Robert V. Remini

American historian

Date of Birth: 17-Jul-1921

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 28-Mar-2013

Profession: writer, professor, historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Robert V. Remini

  • Robert Vincent Remini (1921–2013) was an American historian and a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
  • He wrote numerous books about President Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian era, most notably a three-volume biography of Jackson.
  • For the third volume of Andrew Jackson, subtitled The Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845, he won the 1984 US National Book Award for Nonfiction.
  • Remini was widely praised for his meticulous research on Jackson and thorough knowledge of him.
  • His books portrayed Jackson in a mostly favorable light and he was sometimes criticized for being too partial towards his subject. Remini also wrote biographies of other early-19th-century Americans, namely Martin Van Buren, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, and Joseph Smith.
  • He served as Historian of the United States House of Representatives from 2005 until 2010 and wrote a history of the House, which was published in 2006.

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