Eric F. Goldman, a Princeton history professor and award-winning author who served as a special consultant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, has died at the age of 73. Goldman, an authority on 20th century American history, died Sunday at the Medical Center at Princeton, N.J. Through a long and distinguished career as a historian and educator, Goldman won four honorary degrees and two national book awards, and hosted a television program that won two Emmy awards. He is perhaps best known for the 1952 book "Rendezvouz With Destiny: A History Of Modern American Reform."
