"It is my hope...that Daniel Webster will emerge from these pages, not a legendary figure, but a human personage, with weaknesses & shortcomings, perhaps, but also with something of the glorious magnetism which thrilled those whom he met." -Claude M. Fuess
Claude Moore Fuess, educator, historian and author, was born in Waterville, N.Y., in 1885. He received the M.A. (1906) and Ph.D (1912) degrees from Columbia University. Fuess taught English at Phillips Academy, Andover, from 1908 to 1933, and was appointed headmaster there in 1933. He was the author or editor of more than 30 books and numerous articles.