Carleton Putnam
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Carleton Putnam(1901-1998) was an American airline pioneer, writer, and biographer. He was educated at Princeton and the Columbia University. He was a founder and president of Chicago & Southern Airlines, which was merged with Delta Airlines. He was a chairman and, later, a director of Delta. His best known written works are Race and Reason, a defence of racial segregation, and his biography of Theodore Roosevelt. He died of pneumonia on Mar. 5, 1998. He was a descendant of General Israel Putnam, and was related to the antropologist Carleton Coon.
Written Works
- Race and Reason: A Yankee View (1961)
- Race and Reality: A Search for Solutions (1967)
- Theodore Roosevelt: The Formative Years (1958)
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