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David Bergamini


Born
in Tokyo, Japan
October 11, 1928

Died
September 03, 1983


David Howland Bergamini was an American author who wrote books on 20th-century history and popular science, notably mathematics.

Bergamini was interned as an Allied civilian in a Japanese concentration camp in the Philippines with his mother Clara Dorothea Bergamini (born Hawke), father John Van Wie Bergamini, an architect who worked for the American Episcopal Mission in China, Japan, the Philippines and Africa), and younger sister for the duration of World War II.

From 1949 to 1951 Bergamini studied at Merton College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. In 1951 he joined Time as a reporter; in 1961 he was appointed Assistant Editor of Life magazine.

According to Professor Charles Sheldon of the University of Cambridge, his 1971 book on Japan's Im
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Average rating: 4.03 · 210 ratings · 25 reviews · 48 distinct worksSimilar authors
Japan's Imperial Conspiracy...

4.03 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1971 — 13 editions
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Life Science Library: Mathe...

4.21 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1963 — 14 editions
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The Universe

4.11 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1962 — 24 editions
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The Land and Wildlife of Au...

3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1964 — 20 editions
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Venus Development

3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1976 — 5 editions
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The Fleet in the Window

3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1961 — 6 editions
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Mathematics

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Life Nature Library: The Un...

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The Universe

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1979
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mathematics

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