Henry Adams "City of Nets: Hollywood in the 1940's" (1986) "Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations," (1989) "Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet," (1992), and "Blood and Iron," a study of the Von Moltke family of Germany that is being published this fall. They include "Clover: A Love Story," a 1979 biography of Mrs. Friedrich, who had tried his hand as a novelist in the 1950's and 60's and written a series of children's books with his wife, Priscilla Broughton, wrote nonfiction, turning out an average of one book every two years. Widely hailed as both an engaging and definitive account of corporate myopia, the book, which won a George Polk Memorial Award, is still used as a textbook by both journalism and business schools, his daughter said.įrom then on, Mr. Friedrich, who had seen the end coming and kept meticulous notes, delineated its demise in a book, 'Decline and Fall," which was published by Harper & Row the next year. When the venerable magazine folded in 1969, Mr. Friedrich as a writer to be reckoned with. His career took him from the copy desk at Stars and Stripes to a top writing job at Time, with stops in between with the United Press in London and Paris and with The Daily News and Newsweek in New York.īut it was the seven years he spent with The Saturday Evening Post, including four as its last managing editor, that established Mr. He took a while to find his literary stride. Otto Friedrich was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard, where his father was a political science professor.
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