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11 Facts About Ronald Steel

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Ronald Lewis Steel was an American writer, historian, and professor.

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Ronald Steel is the author of the definitive biography of Walter Lippmann.

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Ronald Steel was Jewish, and his father immigrated to the United States from Russia.

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Ronald Steel earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and English from Northwestern University and a Master of Arts degree in political economy from Harvard University.

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Ronald Steel served in the United States Army, stationed in Paris and was a diplomat in the United States Foreign Service, stationed in Hamburg.

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Ronald Steel was an editor for the Scholastic Corporation from 1959 to 1962.

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Ronald Steel was the author of Walter Lippmann and the American Century, the definitive biography of Lippmann.

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Ronald Steel was a professor of International Relations, History, and Journalism at the University of Southern California, where he taught from 1986 to 2008.

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Ronald Steel has written for the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times and The New York Review of Books.

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In 2016, Ronald Steel moved to a nursing home in Washington, DC, due to increasing cognitive impairment from dementia.

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Ronald Steel died there on May 7,2023, at the age of 92.