Richard Reeves, senior lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, is an author and syndicated columnist whose column has appeared in more than 100 newspapers since 1979. He...
Richard Reeves, senior lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, is an author and syndicated columnist whose column has appeared in more than 100 newspapers since 1979. He has received dozens of awards for his work in print, television and film.
Educated as a mechanical engineer, Richard Reeves began his career in journalism at the age of 23, founding the Phillipsburg Free Press in Phillipsburg, N.J. He has been a correspondent for the Newark Evening News and the New York Herald Tribune and was the chief political correspondent of The New York Times. He has also written for numerous other publications, becoming national editor and columnist for Esquire and New York Magazine along the way. Named a "literary lion" by the New York Public Library, Reeves has won a number of print journalism awards and has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist and juror.
In 1975, Reeves published his first book, "A Ford, not a Lincoln." His "President Kennedy: Profile of Power" is now considered the authoritative work on the 35th president, has won several national awards and was named the Best Non-Fiction Book of 1993 by Time and Book of the Year by Washington Monthly.
Reeves has also worked extensively on television and in film. He was chief correspondent on "Frontline." He has made six television films and won all of television's major documentary awards: the Emmy for "Lights, Camera . . . Politics!" for ABC News; the Columbia-DuPont Award for "Struggle for Birmingham" for PBS; and the George Foster Peabody Award for "Red Star over Khyber" for PBS. He has also appeared in two feature films, "Dave" and "Seabiscuit."
In 1998, he won the Carey McWilliams Award of the American Political Science Association for distinguished contributions to the understanding of American politics. He was the Goldman Lecturer on American Civilization and Government at the Library of Congress that year; the lectures were published by Harvard University Press under the title What the People Know: Freedom and the Press.
His book, "Daring Young Men," a history of the Berlin Airlift pulblished in 2010 gained much acclaim and his latest book is"Portrait of Camelot: A thousand days in the Kennedy White House"(2010). He is currently working on a book on the internment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans by the United States government during World War II..
Richard Reeves / TruthdigFeb 15, 2011
We do not know what will happen next in Egypt and the larger Middle East, but then our liberators did not know what would happen in 1775. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Richard Reeves / TruthdigFeb 7, 2011
When President Reagan left office in 1981, his legacy did not seem Mount Rushmore quality. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Richard Reeves / TruthdigFeb 3, 2011
I love Cairo. I love Egyptians. They are, to me, like Italians. They love life, no matter what it brings. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Richard Reeves / TruthdigJan 26, 2011
If Americans had really understood what was happening with the Peace Corps, we might be a much greater country today and the world might be a better place as well. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Richard Reeves / TruthdigJan 19, 2011
Fifty years ago, John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president of the United States. He gave a stirring inaugural address and then took over a job for which he was unprepared. No one is ever prepared. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Richard Reeves / TruthdigJan 12, 2011
I do not believe that Sarah Palin had anything to do with the gunning down of innocents in Arizona. What bothers me is the cowardice of national leaders and other politicians who allow people to carry around weapons on the streets, in restaurants and bars. That’s the great American craziness. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Richard Reeves / TruthdigDec 28, 2010
This year was a game-changer, and what we need is a game-changer list. On that kind of list, I would drop one-off sensations, beginning with the oil spill, the Haitian earthquake and the mine rescue. No. 1 would be WikiLeaks. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Richard Reeves / TruthdigDec 22, 2010
I doubt that President Obama is about to sit down at the end of this year and tell Oprah Winfrey that he is giving himself a B-plus as he did just a year ago. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Richard Reeves / TruthdigDec 14, 2010
In 1982, Richard Nixon told me he thought that by the middle of this century the world would be dominated by Asians, primarily Chinese. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Richard Reeves / TruthdigNov 30, 2010
And now a quote that could come from Dr. Strangelove: "I will stand my artificial intelligence against your human any day of the week and tell you that my A.I. will pay more attention to the rules of engagement and create fewer ethical lapses than a human force." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Richard Reeves / TruthdigNov 24, 2010
Politicians have ways of protecting themselves from ordinary people, but Californians have passed a series of ballot measures mandating that election districts -- from school boards to Congress -- be redrawn by 14 randomly selected citizens. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Richard Reeves / TruthdigNov 16, 2010
I had to pull over to the side of La Cienega Boulevard last Tuesday evening as I drove home from work. I was crying. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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