Michael Kammen

1936–2013 (age 77)

Historian

Biography

Michael Kammen taught American history at Cornell University and earned the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1973 for People of Paradox, a book that captured the contradictions of American political culture with clarity and grace.

He wrote widely admired books on American music, religion, and popular culture, serving as a bridge between scholars and the public while his friends and family now remember him at Pleasant Grove Cemetery.

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