Stanley Weintraub

{{Short description|American historian and biographer (1929–2019)}}

{{Infobox writer  | name = Stanley Weintraub | image = Stanley Weintraub (16138612921) (cropped).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Weintraub in 2014 | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1929|4|17}} | birth_place = [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|07|28|1929|04|17}} | death_place = [[Jennersville, Pennsylvania]], U.S. | occupation = | language = | nationality = [[United States|American]] | alma_mater = [[West Chester University of Pennsylvania|West Chester State Teachers College]] | period = | genre =  | subject =  | movement = | notableworks =  | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | relatives = | awards = }} '''Stanley Weintraub''' (April 17, 1929 – July 28, 2019) was an American [[historian]] and [[biographer]] and an expert on [[George Bernard Shaw]].

==Early life== Weintraub was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 17, 1929. He was the eldest child of Benjamin and Ray Segal Weintraub. He attended [[South Philadelphia High School]], and then he attended West Chester State Teachers College ([[West Chester University of Pennsylvania]]) where he received his B.S. in education in 1949. He continued his education at [[Temple University]] where he received his master's degree in English "in absentia," as he was called to duty in the [[Korean War]].

He received a commission in the [[United States Army|Army]] as a second lieutenant, and served with the [[Eighth United States Army|Eighth Army]] in [[Korea]], receiving a [[Bronze Star Medal|Bronze Star]].<ref>Grace Matters, [http://www.gracematters.org/interviews/s.weintraub.html Interview: Stanley Weintraub]</ref>

After the war, he enrolled at [[Pennsylvania State University]] in September 1953; his doctoral dissertation "Bernard Shaw, Novelist" was accepted on May 6, 1956.<ref name=wcphd>{{Cite book|title=Bernhard Shaw: novelist|first=Stanley|last=Weintraub|date=Apr 14, 1956|oclc=257796067}}</ref>

==Personal life== He married [[Rodelle Weintraub|Rodelle Horwitz]] in 1954; they had three children, and lived in [[Newark, Delaware]].<ref>Simon and Schuster, [http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Stanley-Weintraub/1064729 Stanley Weintraub | Official Publisher Page]</ref> He died on July 28, 2019, at the age of 90.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.psu.edu/story/583201/2019/08/12/academics/evan-pugh-professor-emeritus-stanley-weintraub-has-died|title=Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus Stanley Weintraub has died | Penn State University|website=news.psu.edu|accessdate=Apr 14, 2021}}</ref>

==Career== Except for visiting appointments, he remained at Penn State for all of his career, finally attaining the rank of Evan Pugh Professor of Arts and Humanities, with emeritus status on retirement in 2000. From 1970 to 1990 he was also Director of Penn State's Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies.<ref>The Gale Literary Database: Contemporary Authors Online. 10 Sept. 2009. 7 Nov. 2011.</ref>

==Publications== {{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?54339-1/disraeli-biography ''Booknotes'' interview with Weintraub on ''Disraeli'', February 6, 1994], [[C-SPAN]]| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?90026-1/uncrowned-king-life-prince-albert Presentation by Weintraub on ''Uncrowned King'', August 28, 1997], C-SPAN| video3 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?157312-1/korean-war ''Washington Journal'' interview with Weintraub on ''MacArthur's War'', May 23, 2000], C-SPAN| video4 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?162023-1/dear-young-friend-letters-american-presidents Presentation by Stanley and Rodelle Weintraub on ''Dear Young Friend'', December 19, 2000], C-SPAN| video5 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?167813-1/1914-christmas-truce Discussion with Weintraub on ''Silent Night'', November 30, 2001], C-SPAN| video6 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?187394-1/iron-tears-americas-battle-freedom Presentation by Weintraub on ''Iron Tears'', June 22, 2005], C-SPAN| video7 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?199825-1/after-words-stanley-weintraub ''After Words'' interview with Weintraub on ''15 Stars'', August 18, 2007], C-SPAN | video8 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?290683-1/general-shermans-christmas Presentation by Weintraub on ''General Sherman's Christmas'', December 2, 2009], C-SPAN | video9 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?304240-1/pearl-harbor-christmas Presentation by Weintraub on ''Pearl Harbor Christmas'', January 24, 2012], C-SPAN | video10 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?306995-1/final-victory Presentation by Weintraub on ''Final Victory'', July 11, 2012], C-SPAN | video11 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?316083-1/young-mr-roosevelt Presentation by Weintraub on ''Young Mr. Roosevelt'', November 3, 2013], C-SPAN}} He was a prolific award-winning author:<ref name=wc>{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=Stanley+Weintraub|title=Results for 'Stanley Weintraub' [WorldCat.org]|website=www.worldcat.org|accessdate=Apr 14, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|chapter=Introduction|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iudgw2-849IC&pg=PA9 |page=9 |title=Shaw and Other Matters: A Festschrift for Stanley Weintraub on the Occasion of His Forty-second Anniversary at the Pennsylvania State University | isbn=978-1-57591-008-6 | editor=Rusinko, Susan |date=1998 | publisher=Susquehanna University Press }}</ref>

*''Private Shaw and Public Shaw: A Dual Portrait of Arabia and G. B. S.''. London: Braziller, 1963.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1215/00382876-63-1-139 |title=review of ''Private Shaw & Public Shaw: A Dual Portrait of Lawrence of Arabia and G.B.S.'' by Stanley Weintraub |date=1964 |last1=Ohmann |first1=Richard M. |author-link=Richard Ohmann|journal=South Atlantic Quarterly |volume=63 |issue=1 |page=139 |s2cid=257878564 }}</ref> {{OCLC|394619}} *''The Yellow Book, Quintessence of the Nineties''. Ed. with an introd. by Stanley Weintraub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964. {{OCLC|351035}} *''The Art of [[William Golding]]'' (with Bernard S. Oldsey). New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965. *''Reggie: a Portrait of [[Reginald Turner]]''. New York: Braziller, 1965. {{OCLC|1165471}} *''The Savoy: Nineties Experiment.'' University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1966. {{OCLC|369413}} *''Beardsley: A Biography''. London: Braziller, 1967. {{OCLC|517295}} Received [[National Book Award]] nomination in 1967 <ref name=PSL /> {{cite book|title=2nd, revised edition|year=1972|isbn=0140215557|lccn=73161896}} *''The Last Great Cause: The Intellectuals and the Spanish Civil War''. New York: Weybright & Talley, 1968. {{OCLC|437500}} *''Journey to Heartbreak; the Crucible Years of Bernard Shaw, 1914–1918''. New York: Weybright & Talley, 1971. {{OCLC|154871}} *''Journey to Heartbreak: The Crucible Years of Bernard Shaw''. New York: Weybright & Talley, 1971. Received the George Freedley Award from the American Theatre Library Association in 1971.<ref name=PSL /> *''Directions in Literary Criticism; Contemporary Approaches to Literature''. Ed. by Stanley Weintraub & Philip Young. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1973. {{ISBN|0-271-01116-5}} {{OCLC|609168}} *''Saint Joan: Fifty Years After, 1923/24-1973/74.'' Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973. {{ISBN|0-8071-0208-3}} {{OCLC|737250}} *''Whistler: A Biography''. New York: Weybright & Talley, 1974. {{ISBN|0-679-40099-0}} {{OCLC|821038}} *''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]:The Literary Impulse.'' With Rodelle Weintraub. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975. {{ISBN|0-8071-0152-4}} {{OCLC|1991924}} *''[[Aubrey Beardsley]]: Imp of the Perverse.'' University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976. {{ISBN|0-271-01215-3}} {{OCLC|2118568}} *''War in the Wards: Korea's Unknown Battle in a Prisoner-of-war Hospital Camp''. 2d ed. San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, 1976. {{OCLC|1349913}} *''The Portable Bernard Shaw.'' New York : Penguin, 1977, 1986. *''Four Rossettis: a Victorian Biography.'' New York: Weybright & Talley, 1977. {{ISBN|0-679-40136-9}} {{OCLC|2318460}} *''The London Yankees: Portraits of American Writers and Artists in London, 1894–1914.'' New York: Harcourt, 1979. {{ISBN|0-15-152978-7}} {{OCLC|4835286}} Received the [[Freedoms Foundation]] Award in 1980 <ref name=PSL /> *''Modern British Dramatists, 1900–1945.'' Dictionary of Literary Biography: Vol. 10. Detroit: Gale Research, 1982. {{ISBN|0-8103-0937-8}} {{OCLC|7947395}}<ref>{{cite journal|author=Cave, Richard Allen|journal=Theatre Research International|date=Autumn 1983|volume=8|issue=3|title=review of ''Modern British Dramatists, 1900–1945'' edited by Stanley Weintraub|pages=267–268|doi=10.1017/S0307883300007781}}</ref> *''The Unexpected Shaw: Biographical Approaches to George Bernard Shaw and His Work.'' New York: Ungar, 1982. {{ISBN|0-8044-2974-X}} {{OCLC|8729615}} *''British Dramatists since World War II.'' Dictionary of Literary Biography: Vol. 13. Detroit: Gale Research, 1982. {{ISBN|0-8103-0936-X}} {{OCLC|8195676}} *''A Stillness Heard Round the World: the End of the Great War, November 1918.'' London : Allen & Unwin, 1986. American ed. published by E. P. Dutton. {{ISBN|0-525-24346-1}} {{OCLC|11970040}} *''Victoria: An Intimate Biography.'' New York: Dutton, 1987; 700 pages.<ref>{{cite book|author=Koenig, Rhoda|chapter=review of ''Victoria: An Intimate Biography'' by Stanley Weintraub|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dOQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA79 |pages=79–80| title=New York Magazine | date=16 March 1987 }}</ref> {{ISBN|0-525-24469-7}} {{OCLC|13666542}} *''Bernard Shaw on the London Art Scene, 1885–1950.'' University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989. {{ISBN|0-271-00665-X}} {{OCLC|18950120}} *''Long Day's Journey Into War: December 7, 1941.'' New York: Dutton, 1991. {{ISBN|0-525-93344-1}} {{OCLC|23179418}} *''Bernard Shaw: A Guide to Research.'' University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. *''[[Disraeli]]: A Biography.'' New York: Dutton, 1993. {{ISBN|0-525-93668-8}} {{OCLC|27684040}} *''Arms and the Man and John Bull's Other Island by George Bernard Shaw'', with an Introduction by Stanley and Rodelle Weintraub. New York: Bantam, 1993. *''The Last Great Victory : the End of World War II, July–August 1945.'' New York : Truman Talley Books, 1995. {{ISBN|0-525-93687-4}} {{OCLC|31610439}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=oxagx0lyVbQC ''Shaw's People: Victoria to Churchill.''] University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. {{ISBN|0-271-01500-4}} {{OCLC|32312138}} *''Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert.'' New York: Free Press, 1997. {{ISBN|0-684-83486-3}} {{OCLC|36008453}}; {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ymHG-kAz-xgC | title=2000 pbk edition |isbn=978-0-7432-0609-9 | last1=Weintraub | first1=Stanley | date=April 2000 | publisher=Simon and Schuster }} *''[[Douglas MacArthur|MacArthur]]'s War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero.'' New York: Free Press, 2000.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Kennedy, David M.|author-link=David M. Kennedy (historian)|title=review of ''MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero'' by Stanley Weintraub|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CGV-sHezvSgC&pg=PA1237 | journal=The New York Times Book Reviews| date=July 2, 2000 |volume=105|issue=27|page=16|isbn=978-1-57958-058-2 }}</ref> {{ISBN|0-684-83419-7}} {{OCLC|41548333}} *''Dear Young Friend: the Letters of American Presidents to Children.'' Ed. with Rodelle Weintraub. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Press, 2000. *''Edward the Caresser: the Playboy Prince who Became [[Edward VII]].'' New York: Free Press, 2001. {{ISBN|0-684-85318-3}} {{OCLC|45375122}} *''Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914.'' New York: Free Press, 2001. {{ISBN|0-684-87281-1}} {{OCLC|46918071}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=vjmeijdRi0QC ''Charlotte and Lionel: a Rothschild Love Story.''] New York: Free Press, 2003. {{ISBN|0-7432-2686-0}} {{OCLC|50511533}} *''General Washington's Christmas Farewell: a Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783.'' New York: Free Press, 2003. {{ISBN|0-7432-4654-3}} {{OCLC|51978064}}; {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N-D43sawwucC | title=2003 pbk edition| isbn=978-0-7432-4654-5 | last1=Weintraub| first1=Stanley| date=2003| publisher=Simon and Schuster}} *''Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire, 1775–1783.'' New York: Free Press, 2005. (also, subtitled Rebellion in America, 1775–1783. London: Simon and Schuster, 2005) {{ISBN|0-7432-2687-9}} {{OCLC|56592341}} *''Eleven Days in December. Christmas at the Bulge'', 1944. New York: Free Press, 2006. {{ISBN|0-7432-8710-X}} {{OCLC|69645839}} *''15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century''. New York: Free Press, 2007. {{ISBN|0-7432-7527-6}} {{OCLC|124074718}} *''General Sherman's Christmas. Savannah, 1864''. New York: Harper/Smithsonian, 2009. {{ISBN|0-06-170298-6}} {{OCLC|263605547}} *''Farewell, Victoria! English Literature 1880–1900''. Greensboro, NC: ELT PRESS / University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2011. {{ISBN|0-944318-25-8}} {{OCLC|760167199}} *''Who's Afraid of Bernard Shaw? Some Personalities in Shaw's Plays''. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. {{ISBN|0-8130-3726-3}} {{OCLC|707260815}} *''Victorian Yankees at [[Queen Victoria]]'s Court: American Encounters with Victoria and Albert''. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2011. {{ISBN|1-61149-060-X}} {{OCLC|698327984}} *''Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941''. New York: DaCapo Press, 2011. {{ISBN|0-306-82061-7}} {{OCLC|758974640}} *''Final Victory: FDR's Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign''. New York: Da Capo Press, 2012. {{ISBN|0-306-82113-3}} {{OCLC|744287559}} *''Young Mr. Roosevelt: [[FDR]]'s Introduction to War, Politics, and Life''. New York: Da Capo Press, 2013. {{ISBN|0-306-82118-4}} {{OCLC|841198197}}

==Awards== Weintraub was a [[Guggenheim Fellow]] for the academic year 1968–1969.<ref>{{cite web|title=Stanley Weintraub|website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/stanley-weintraub/}}</ref> On 11 November 1982, the university inaugurated the "Rodelle and Stanley Weintraub Center for the Study of the Arts and Humanities," containing a collection of their books, papers and memorabilia.<ref name=PSL>{{Cite web|url=http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Weintraub__Stanley.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130228154437/http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Weintraub__Stanley.html|url-status=dead|title=Penn State Libraries|archivedate=Feb 28, 2013|accessdate=Apr 14, 2021}}</ref> In 2011, he was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by West Chester University of Pennsylvania.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wcupa.edu/_information/official.documents/undergrad.catalog/awards.htm|title=Undergraduate Catalog 2014-2015 (Honors and Awards) - West Chester University|website=www.wcupa.edu|accessdate=Apr 14, 2021}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/stanley-weintraub-pearl-harbor-christmas/ Lecture] on ''Pearl Harbor Christmas'' at the [[Pritzker Military Museum & Library]] *[https://news.psu.edu/story/583201/2019/08/12/academics/evan-pugh-professor-emeritus-stanley-weintraub-has-died Obituary] at Penn State website *{{C-SPAN|21496}} **[https://web.archive.org/web/20140808141406/http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/54339-1/Stanley+Weintraub.aspx ''Booknotes'' interview with Weintraub on ''Disraeli: A Biography'', February 6, 1994.]

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