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Thomas Fleming, shown in 1999, insisted that the American struggle for independence continued to inform much of the nation’s subsequent history.
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Thomas Fleming
Died on July 23, 2017 at age 90
Mr. Fleming was a prolific historian with a zealous interest in America’s founding fathers and a historical novelist whose plots included a British conspiracy to kidnap George Washington.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.