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J._C._Furnas

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• Joseph Chamberlain Furnas (November 24, 1905 – June 3, 2001)[1] was an American freelance writer.
• Furnas is best known for his article, commissioned for the Reader's Digest, "---And Sudden Death!" This article brought national attention to the problem of automobile safety, and is the most-reprinted article in the Digest's history.
• His other works include a trilogy of social histories of the United States, The Americans (covering the period 1570-1914), Great Times (covering the period 1914-1929) and Stormy Weather: Crosslights on the 1930s (which covers the time between the stock market crash and the attack on Pearl Harbor.)
• The Life and Times of the Late Demon Rum purports to be the only "wet" history of the temperance movement; it covers Temperance from its earliest beginnings late in the eighteenth century up to the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment and national prohibition. It is a useful work for those who wish to understand the context within which the temperance and prohibition movements operated; Furnas studies these movements' leaders and neither glosses over their virtues nor their shortcomings.
• Two of his books, The Road to Harper's Ferry and Goodbye to Uncle Tom, deal with African American issues---The Road to Harper's Ferry is an account of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, which delves into the lives and motivations of the "Secret Six" who gave him a great deal of his support, and Goodbye to Uncle Tom examines how Uncle Tom's Cabin, both as a novel and in its many stage adaptations, has shaped American attitudes towards African Americans and slavery.
• In addition to these books, he wrote several books dealing with the South Pacific, including a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as several novels.
• He is credited with uncovering the truth behind the Lillian Hellman short story, "Julia," later made into a movie starring Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave. Hellman claimed the story was a true if veiled account drawn from the life of her childhood friend "Julia," a doctor trained in Vienna as a psychotherapist and an anti-Nazi. In fact, the story was taken from the life of Muriel Gardiner, a friend of J.C. Furnas's wife. He documents the story in his autobiography.
• Furnas was born in Indiana on November 24, 1905. He was educated at Harvard University. During World War II he served as a war correspondent; his age, poor vision and Quaker background all combined to keep him from actual military service.
• Furnas died on June 3, 2001, at his home in the Stanton section of Readington Township, New Jersey.[2]