Edwin S. Grosvenor

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Edwin S. Grosvenor


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in Washington, D.C., The United States
September 17, 1951

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Edwin Grosvenor has been the Editor-in-Chief of American Heritage and Invention & Technology Magazines and President of American Heritage Publishing since 2007. He has published ten books and is best known for writing about his great-grandfather, Alexander Graham Bell, including two books and several magazine articles.

Early in his career, Grosvenor worked as a freelance photographer for National Geographic, completing 23 assignments in such countries as Belize, Canada, France, Greece, Iceland, Kenya, Spain, Tonga, Turkey and the U.S.

Grosvenor was President and Editor of Portfolio Magazine, the highest circulation fine arts publication in the U.S. at the time according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation, and a nominee for the National Magaz
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“Buchanan declared that the will of the people should determine the issue of slavery,”
Edwin S. Grosvenor, The Best of American Heritage: The Civil War

“confirmed Lincoln’s view that”
Edwin S. Grosvenor, The Best of American Heritage: Lincoln

“But his greatest work, already begun in the opening years of his reign, was the recodification of Roman law. In a series of volumes, collectively known as the Codex Justinianus, the primary rules of social existence as defined by Roman law were reformulated in accordance with the Christian ethic.”
Edwin S. Grosvenor, The Middle Ages

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