Jack Beatty
Jack J. Beatty (born May 15, 1945)[1] is a writer, senior editor of The Atlantic,[2] and news analyst for On Point, the national NPR news program.
Born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Beatty attended Boston Latin School, Boston State College, and the University of Massachusetts Boston. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.[1][3]
Awards
[edit]- 1990: Guggenheim Fellowship[4]
- 1993: American Book Award
- 1993: L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)
- Poynter Fellow at Yale University
- Two Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research grants
- William Allen White Award for Criticism
- Olive Branch Award for an Atlantic article on arms control
Bibliography
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- Beatty, Jack (1992). The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0201175991.
- — (2000). The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958 (Paperback ed.). New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780306810022.
- — (August 1996). "A Race Too Far?". Politics. The Atlantic Monthly. 278 (2): 21–25.[5]
- Jack Beatty, ed. (2001). Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America. Broadway Books. ISBN 978-0-7679-0352-3.
- "A Miserable Failure", The Atlantic, September 24, 2003
- Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865–1900. Random House. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4000-3242-6.
- Jack Beatty, ed. (2004). Pols: Great Writers on American Politicians from Bryan to Reagan. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-58648-015-8.
- Beatty, Jack; Drucker, Peter Ferdinand (1998). The World According to Peter Drucker. The Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-83801-4.
- The Lost History of 1914: How the Great War Was Not Inevitable. London; Berlin [u.a.]: Bloomsbury, 2012. ISBN 978-1-408-82796-3.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Beatty, Jack 1945–". Encyclopedia.com. 2009. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
- ^ "Beatty Biography". The Atlantic.
- ^ University of Massachusetts Boston Commencement 1994 (PDF), University of Massachusetts Boston, 1994, p. 2[permanent dead link]
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Jack J. Beatty".
- ^ William Weld runs against John Kerry in 1996 U.S. Senate election.
External links
[edit]- "Interview with Jack Beatty", Claremont college
- Hillkirk, Scott (2001-05-29). "'Colossus' makes literary sense of U.S. corporations". USA TODAY.
Categories:
- 1945 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American historians
- 21st-century American male writers
- American Book Award winners
- American editors
- The Atlantic (magazine) people
- Boston Latin School alumni
- Boston State College alumni
- Historians from Massachusetts
- People from Hanover, New Hampshire
- University of Massachusetts Boston alumni
- Writers from Boston
- American male non-fiction writers