July 23, 2017: Thomas Fleming, Historian of the Revolution, Dies at 90
July 23, 2017 — Thomas Fleming, a writer of great histories, novels, and a true gentleman of the 20th and 21st centuries, died today at his home in New York City. He was 90.
Click here to read a tribute to Fleming in The New York Times.
July 23, 2017, New York Times — Thomas Fleming, a prolific historian with a zealous interest in America’s founding fathers and a historical novelist whose plots included a British conspiracy to kidnap George Washington, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 90.
His death was confirmed by his son Thomas Jr.
Mr. Fleming, the loquacious son of a tough New Jersey pol, viewed America’s struggle for independence as essential to understanding the history that followed. “So much of what happened later is virtually anchored in the Revolution,” he told the Journal of the American Revolution in 2013. “The whole Civil War pivots on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.”
He added: “Even Woodrow Wilson’s wild claim that we were in World War I to make the world safe for democracy goes back to the sense that we were launching a revolution that would change the world. And it has!”
