Arthur Bernon Tourtellot (July 23, 1913 – October 1977) was an American writer, screenwriter and producer best known for the book Lexington and Concord.
History
Arthur Bernon Tourtellot was born July 23, 1913. He was a fellow at
Middlebury College in 1938 and was at a writer's conference at the
Bread Loaf Campus in 1941. He served in the
U.S. Coast Guard during World War II.
At the end of the war he served as the associate producer of two March of Time documentaries. The first, Crusade in Europe, was based on
Dwight D. Eisenhower's book of the same name. He died in October 1977.
William Diamond's Drum: the Beginning of the War of the American Revolution (Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1959)
Biography of William S. Paley, (unpublished manuscript, 1961–1967, Archives of Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY)
Toward the Well-Being of Mankind, 50 Years of the
Rockefeller Foundation (Editor) (Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1964 and
Hutchinson, London, 1964)
The Presidents on the Presidency (Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1964)
The Lost Revolution: The Story of Twenty Years of Neglected Opportunities in Vietnam and of America's Failure to Foster Democracy There (Editor) (Harper & Row, New York, 1965)
Benjamin Franklin: The Shaping of Genius, the Boston Years (
Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1977)]