Jack Beatty
American historian (born 1945)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jack J. Beatty (born May 15, 1945)[1] is an American writer, senior editor of The Atlantic,[2] and news analyst for On Point, the national NPR news program.
Early life
Beatty was born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.[2]
He attended Boston Latin School, Boston State College, and the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.[1][3]
Career
Beatty joined The Atlantic Monthly in 1983 as a senior editor. He previously worked as a book reviewer for Newsweek and as the literary editor of The New Republic.[2]
In addition to editing many of The Atlantic's major nonfiction pieces, Beatty was also in charge of the book-review section.[2] Beatty also wrote for the magazine himself, including on travel.[2]
Beatty's 1992 biography of James Michael Curley was nominated for a National Book Critics' Circle award.[2] His book Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America was commissioned by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.[4]
Awards
- 1990: Guggenheim Fellowship[5]
- 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
- 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.[6]
- 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 (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.
