William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.

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William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, died Tuesday at the age of 102.

Leuchtenburg died Tuesday at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, according to his son, Joshua A. Leuchtenburg, who cited no specific cause of death. A professor emeritus at t

His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and shaped the postwar years.

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