Sam Tanenhaus was born on October 31, 1955. He received a B.A. in English from Grinnell College in 1977 and a M.A. in English literature from Yale University in 1978. He is an American historian, biographer, and journalist. His books include Old Greenwich Village: An Architectural Portrait, Season of Power, Louis Armstrong: Biography of a Musician, The Death of Conservatism, and Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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