Otto Alva Friedrich (born 1929 Boston, Massachusetts; died April 26, 1995

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), was an American author, and historian. The son of the

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, and

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professor

Carl Joachim Friedrich Carl Joachim Friedrich (; ; June 5, 1901 – September 19, 1984) was a German-American professor and political theorist. He taught alternately at Harvard and Heidelberg until his retirement in 1971. His writings on state and constitutional theory ...

, Otto Friedrich graduated from Harvard University in 1948 with a degree in history. Upon graduation, he became a journalist and then the managing editor of ''

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'' in 1965. After the ''Post'' closed down, he spent the remainder of his career at ''TIME'' magazine, where he wrote more than 40 cover stories. During this time, he also authored more than 14 books on diverse subjects ranging from the rise of Hollywood to the rise of

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, to Paris in the age of

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. In 1970, he won the

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for his book ''Decline and Fall'', about ''

''. Otto Friedrich was married to Priscilla Boughton, with whom he had five children. He died of lung cancer at the

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in Manhasset, New York in 1995.

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