MILLER, Nathan 1927-2004

OBITUARY NOTICE— See index for CA sketch: Born May 26, 1927, in Baltimore, MD; died October 22, 2004, in Washington, DC. Historian, journalist, and author. Miller was an historian of American history best known for his naval histories and studies of the Roosevelt family. After serving in the U.S. Navy at the end of World War II, he attended the University of Maryland, where he completed a B.A. in 1950 and an M.A. the next year. He then embarked on a journalism career, first with the Baltimore Sun, where he worked as a correspondent in Rio de Janeiro for four years and as a Washington correspondent in the late 1960s, and then as an associate editor for Editorial Research Reports. In 1971 he was associate editor for the Kiplinger Tax Letter. After that, he was hired as a speech and editorial writer for the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, a position he held until 1977. A guest editorship with the Washington Journalism Review, ended when Miller became a full-time author in 1978. Though he served as vice president and director of the Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company from 1978 to 1987, and as a member of the editorial board after that, Miller's main focus was on writing. During his career, he published numerous history books, most focusing on the U.S. Navy history and the American presidents. Among these are The U.S. Navy: An Illustrated History (1977; third edition, 1997), FDR: An Intimate History (1983; second edition, 1991), Spying for America: The Hidden History of U.S. Intelligence (1989; second edition, 1997), Stealing from America: A History of Corruption in the United States (1992; second edition, 1996), Theodore Roosevelt: A Life (1992), Star-spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents (1998), and his last book, New World Coming: The 1920s (2003).

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Los Angeles Times, October 28, 2004, p. B10.

Washington Post, October 25, 2004, p. B6.