Merlo J. Pusey

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Merlo J. Pusey


Born
in Woodruff, Utah, The United States
February 03, 1902

Died
November 22, 1985

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Merlo John Pusey was an American biographer and editorial writer. He won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and the 1952 Bancroft Prize for his 1951 biography of U.S. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes.

Born and raised on a farm near Woodruff, Utah, Pusey was a Latter-day Saint. He attended the Latter-day Saints University and graduated as a member of Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Utah after working on the college newspaper. He later became a reporter and assistant city editor at The Deseret News in Salt Lake City.

Pusey worked for The Washington Post from 1928 to 1971, becoming associate editor in 1946, continuing to contribute occasional pieces until about two years before his death.

Average rating: 3.98 · 40 ratings · 9 reviews · 13 distinct works
Charles Evans Hughes

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1951 — 10 editions
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Builders of the Kingdom (St...

4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions
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Eugene Meyer

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Charles Evans Hughes : in T...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1951 — 2 editions
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The Way We Go To War

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1969
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Ripples of Intuition

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Charles Evans Hughes, Volum...

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Eisenhower the President

it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1956 — 8 editions
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The U.S.A. astride the globe

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Big Government: Can we Cont...

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