John Allan Nagy (1946 – April 1, 2016), was a nonfiction writer on the American Revolution with an expertise in the field of espionage and mutinies.

Nagy was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and graduated from Perth Amboy High School in 1964. In 1968 he graduated from Saint Francis University, Loretto, Pennsylvania.[1] He later attended Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, and graduated in 1979 with a master's degree in Management Science. He lived in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.[2] Nagy died at his home in New Jersey on April 1, 2016.[3]

Work

He was a Scholar in Residence at Saint Francis University, Loretto, Pennsylvania and has been a consultant for Colonial Williamsburg, Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at George Washington's Mount Vernon, and the William L. Clements Library of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan on espionage.[citation needed] [4][5] He has appeared on C-SPAN, the History Channel, and been interviewed twice in hour-long programs for Pennsylvania Cable Network. He also appeared in "The President's Inner Circle" episode of Brad Meltzer's Decoded.

In 2003 he was the speaker representing the French Government with a talk on the French Spies in the American Revolution at the Franco-American Alliance Celebration on the 225th anniversary of the Treaties signed in Paris on 6 February 1778 held on February 6, 2003, at Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[6]

In April 2015, he was a research fellow at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia.

He completed his 5th book on the American Revolution, George Washington's Secret Spy War: The Making of America's First Spymaster, in early 2016 before his death in April. It was released posthumously in September 2016.

Awards

2007 American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia best book published in 2007 on the American Revolution Era.[7]

Bibliography

Chapters

Video and podcasts

Articles about John A. Nagy

References

  1. ^ 2005 Saint Francis University Alumni Directory page 200
  2. ^ "John A. Nagy, Author". johnanagy.com. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  3. ^ "John Nagy Obituary - Marlton, New Jersey". Archived from the original on 2016-04-04. Retrieved 2016-04-02.
  4. ^ "John A. Nagy - at | ExpertFile". expertfile.com. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  5. ^ "Spy Letters of the American Revolution -- About the Project". clements.umich.edu. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  6. ^ "2003 Celebrations of the 225th Anniversary of the 1778 French-American Alliance Treaty". xenophongroup.com. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  7. ^ "Book Award -". arrtop.com. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  8. ^ Rebellion in the ranks : mutinies of the American Revolution (Book, 2007) [WorldCat.org]. worldcat.org. OCLC 154790076.
  9. ^ Invisible ink : spycraft of the American Revolution (Book, 2010) [WorldCat.org]. worldcat.org. OCLC 430506919.
  10. ^ Spies in the Continental capital : espionage across Pennsylvania during the American Revolution (Book, 2011) [WorldCat.org]. worldcat.org. OCLC 694832797.
  11. ^ Dr. Benjamin Church, spy : a case of espionage on the eve of the American Revolution (Book, 2013) [WorldCat.org]. worldcat.org. OCLC 847837394.
  12. ^ Nagy, John A. (2012). Lengel, Edward G. (ed.). George Washington Spymaster. Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 344–357. doi:10.1002/9781118219935.ch20. ISBN 9781118219935. ((cite encyclopedia)): |work= ignored (help)
  13. ^ "YouTube - John Nagy: Spies in the Continental Capital". youtube.com. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  14. ^ "New York Military Affairs Symposium - Podcasts". bobrowen.com. Retrieved 2014-02-01.

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