Robert Shogan | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 12, 1930 New York City |
| Died | October 30, 2013 Washington, D.C. |
| Education | Syracuse University |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist and author |
| Notable credit | The Los Angeles Times |
Robert Shogan (September 12, 1930 – October 30, 2013) was an American journalist and author.[1] He spent more than 25 years at the Washington bureau of The Los Angeles Times.[2] He also worked for The Detroit Free Press, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal. He taught at Johns Hopkins University, among other institutions.[2]
Books
Shogan wrote many works of historical nonfiction and media criticism. Particularly praised was The Battle Of Blair Mountain: The Story Of America's Largest Labor Uprising, published in 2004. Kirkus Reviews called it "a stunning re-creation of the great West Virginia uprising of 1921 . . . crackingly told."[3] The Journal of Appalachian Studies declared that "among other successes, this book presents a valuable short history of the U.S. labor movement and its discontents through crystalline evocations of figures like Samuel Gompers, John L. Lewis, the Wobblies, and Mother Jones."[4] Greil Marcus, in a revised edition of The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, cited it as a worthy source about the Battle of Blair Mountain.[5]
Publishers Weekly wrote that Bad News: Where the Press Goes Wrong in the Making of the President, published in 2001, was a "carefully crafted retrospective on the media and presidential campaigns since JFK . . . a highly readable chronicle."[6] Reviewing 1991's The Riddle of Power: Presidential Leadership From Truman to Bush, The New York Times stated that it was "on balance . . . a lively and straightforward primer on leadership."[7]
Selected bibliography
- The Detroit Race Riot: A Study in Violence, with Tom Craig (1964)
- A Question of Judgment: The Fortas Case and the Struggle for the Supreme Court (1972)
- Promises to Keep: Carter's First Hundred Days (1977)
- Riddle of Power: Presidential Leadership from Truman to Bush (1991)
- Hard Bargain: How FDR Twisted Churchill's Arm, Evaded the Law, and Changed the Role of the American Presidency (1995)
- Bad News: Where the Press Goes Wrong in the Making of the President (2001)
- The Battle Of Blair Mountain: The Story Of America's Largest Labor Uprising (2004)
- No Sense of Decency: The Army-McCarthy Hearings: A Demagogue Falls and Television Takes Charge of American Politics (2009)
- Prelude to Catastrophe: FDR's Jews and the Menace of Nazism (2010)
- Harry Truman and the Struggle for Racial Justice (2013)
References
- ↑ "Robert Shogan dies at 83; Times' Washington political correspondent". Los Angeles Times. November 1, 2013.
- 1 2 Langer, Emily (October 31, 2013). "Robert Shogan, author and longtime political reporter for Los Angeles Times, dies at 83" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
- ↑ "THE BATTLE OF BLAIR MOUNTAIN | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
- ↑ Precoda, Karl (2006). "Reviewed work: The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising, Robert Shogan; the Shot from the Mountain: An Appalachian Odyssey, Claude S. Phillips". Journal of Appalachian Studies. 12 (1): 144–146. JSTOR 41446709.
- ↑ Marcus, Greil (April 26, 2011). The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes. Picador. ISBN 9781429961585 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Nonfiction Book Review: BAD NEWS: Where the Press Goes Wrong in the Making of the President by Robert Shogan, Author BAD NEWS: Where the Press Goes Wrong in the Making of the P $26 (308p) ISBN 978-1-56663-346-8". PublishersWeekly.com.
- ↑ Mitgang, Herbert (March 9, 1991). "Books of The Times; How Roosevelt's Successors Compare" – via NYTimes.com.
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