Saul K. Padover Explained

Saul Kussiel Padover
Birth Date:	13 April 1905
Birth Place:	Rozwadów, Austria-Hungary (now Poland)
Death Place:	New York City, New York, U.S.
Education:	Wayne State UniversityYale UniversityUniversity of Chicago
Occupation:	Historian Academic
Spouse:	Irina Padover, Peg Fenwick

Saul Kussiel Padover (April 13, 1905 – February 22, 1981)^[1] was a historian and political scientist at the New School for Social Research in New York City who wrote biographies of philosophers and politicians such as Karl Marx and Thomas Jefferson.

Early years and education

Padover was born in Rozwadów, then in Austria-Hungary, but now in Poland.^[2] He emigrated to the United States in 1920. Padover earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He completed graduate coursework at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut and received a Master of Arts and in 1932. He later received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.^[3]

Civil Service

Padover worked in the United States Department of Interior, as a political analyst for the Federal Communications Commission, and as an intelligence officer for the Office of Strategic Services.^{[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]} Padover supervised civilian members of the Psychological Warfare Division (PWD).^[9] His service was notable for his leaking the identity of U.S.-appointed mayor of Aachen Franz Oppenhoff; Heinrich Himmler subsequently ordered the assassination of Oppenhoff.^{[10] [11] [12]}

Academia and writing career

Padover wrote editorials for PM, a short-lived liberal newspaper.

In 1949, he joined the graduate faculty of The New School. He also directed the General Seminar, the New School's interdisciplinary seminar for faculty.

Personal life and death

Padover was married first to Irina Padover, and following the death of his first wife, to Peg Fenwick, screenwriter of the film All That Heaven Allows.^{[13] [14]}

Padover died on February 22, 1981.^[15]

Selected works

• The Life and Death of Louis XVI. D. Appleton-Century, 1939.
• Jefferson: A Great American's Life and Ideas. Harcourt, Brace, 1942.^{[16] [17]}
• The Complete Jefferson: Containing His Major Writings, Published and Unpublished, Except His Letters. 1,322 pages. Tudor Publishing Company, 1943.
• Experiment in Germany. The Story of an American Intelligence Officer (1946), New York: Duell, Sloane and Pearce^{[10] [18]}
  • The Complete Madison. Harper, 1953.^[19]
• A Jefferson Profile: As Revealed in His Letters. John Day, 1956.^[20]
• Confessions and Self-Portraits. John Day, 1957.^[21]
• The Mind of Alexander Hamilton. Harper, 1958.^[22]
• The Genius of America. McGraw-Hill, 1960.^[23]
• The Meaning of Democracy: An Appraisal of the American Experience. (1963)^[24]
• Karl Marx: An Intimate Biography. McGraw-Hill, 1972.^{[25] [26]}
• Sources of Democracy. McGraw-Hill, 1973.^[27]
• Karl Marx on American and the Civil War. McGraw-Hill, 1973.^[28]
• The Living U.S. Constitution. With Jacob W. Landynski. Signet, 1953.^[29]
• Nehru on World History. John Day, 1960. An adaptation of Glimpses of World History by Jawaharlal Nehru.^[30]

External links

• Saul K. Padover Papers, 1947-1972 University at Albany Libraries
• Saul K. Padover papers 1944-1945 New York Public Library

Notes and References

1. Number: 100-26-8974; Issue State: New York; Issue Date: 1951. Via Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, US: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2014. Accessed 2019-10-29.
2. Book: Traussnig, Florian. Die Psychokrieger aus Camp Sharpe. Österreicher als Kampfpropagandisten der US-Armee im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Böhlau. 2020. 978-3-205-21019-1. Vienna, Kelown, Weimar. 325.
3. Web site: Saul K. Padover Papers. library.albany.edu. 2019-10-29.
4. Bale . Jeff . The U.S. occupation of Germany . . March–April 2006 . 46 . 11 December 2022.
5. Book: The History of U.S. Information Control in Post-War Germany: The Past Imperfect . Warkentin . Erwin . 23 September 2016 . Cambridge Scholars Publishing . ResearchGate . 11 December 2022.
6. Book: Warkentin . Erwin . The History of U.S. Information Control in Post-War Germany: The Past Imperfect . 23 September 2016 . Cambridge Scholars Publishing . 978-1-4438-1651-9 . en.
7. Rauch . Stefanie . Good Bets, Bad Bets and Dark Horses: Allied Intelligence Officers' Encounters with German Civilians, 1944–1945 . Central European History . March 2020 . 53 . 1 . 120–145 . 10.1017/s0008938919001006 . 216365943 . 11 December 2022. free .
8. Web site: Facilitating 'Aryanisation' . Compromised Identities? . 11 December 2022 . Sources: NYPL, Saul Padover Papers, Profiles 1944-45..
9. News: THE NATIONS: Faces in the Wallow . 11 December 2022 . . 26 March 1945 . A team of U.S. civilian investigators—Author-Historian Dr. Saul K. Padover, Dr. Paul Robinson Sweet of Bates College, and Lewis F. Gittler, an OWI propagandist—went into western Germany to study German civilian attitudes. After chatting with scores of German workers, grocers, professional men, housewives, Nazis and non-Nazis, Dr. Padover reported:.
10. Web site: EXPERIMENT IN GERMANY by Saul K. Padovor . . en.
11. Book: Taylor, Fred. Exorcising Hitler : the occupation and denazification of Germany. Bloomsbury Press. 2011. 978-1596915367. 1st U.S.. New York. 669754795. registration.
12. Web site: American Occupation Experiences in Aachen before Germany's Surrender - Historisches Institut der RWTH Aachen Prof. Dr. Klaus Schwabe. 2008-04-06. 2019-11-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20080406022138/http://www.histinst.rwth-aachen.de/default.asp?documentId=89. 2008-04-06.
13. News: Mrs. Saul K. Padover. 1952-05-12. The New York Times. 2019-10-20.
14. News: Dr. Saul K. Padover, author, dead at 75. Asbury. Edith Evans. 1981-02-24. The New York Times. 2019-10-20.
15. Landynski. Jacob. Summer 1981. Saul Padover: 1905-1981. Social Research. 48. 2. 225–226. 0037-783X. 40970818.
16. Web site: JEFFERSON by Saul K. Padover . . en.
17. Book: Jefferson. Padover . Saul K.. 1942. en. 940159841.
18. News: Woolbert . Robert Gale . Experiment in Germany . 11 December 2022 . Foreign Affairs . . April 1947.
19. Web site: The Complete Madison by Saul K. Padover . . en.
20. Web site: A Jefferson Profile: As Revealed in his Letters by Saul K.- Ed. Padover . . en.
21. Web site: Confessions and self-portraits by Saul K.- Ed. Padover . . en.
22. Web site: The Mind of Alexander Hamilton by Saul K. Padover . . en.
23. Web site: The Genius of America by Saul K. Padover . . en.
24. Web site: The Meaning of Democracy by Saul K. Padover . . en.
25. Book: Padover, Saul Kussiel. Karl Marx, an intimate biography. registration. 1978. McGraw-Hill. 9780070480728. en.
26. Books: Marxist Mystery. Aikman. David. 1979-01-08. Time. 2019-11-03. en-US. 0040-781X. subscription.
27. Web site: Sources of Democracy . . en.
28. Web site: Karl Marx On American and the Civil War by Saul K.--Ed. Padover . . en.
29. Book: Padover . Saul K. . The Living U.S. Constitution. 1953. Signet.
30. Web site: Nehru on World History; Glimpses of World History by . . en.