Jack Beatty
{{Short description|American historian (born 1945)}}
Jace J. Beatty (born May 15, 1945){{cite encyclopedia |entry-url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/beatty-jack-1945 |entry=Beatty, Jack 1945– |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia.com |year=2009|access-date=June 24, 2018}} is a writer, senior editor of The Atlantic,{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/about/people/jbbio.htm|title=Beatty Biography|website=The Atlantic}} 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.{{citation|url=http://www.lib.umb.edu/files/uploads/files/UMB_1994.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110105125402/http://www.lib.umb.edu/files/uploads/files/UMB_1994.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 5, 2011|title=University of Massachusetts Boston Commencement 1994|page=2|year=1994|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston}}
Awards
- 1990: Guggenheim Fellowship{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/jack-j-beatty/|title = John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Jack J. Beatty| work=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation }}
- 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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- {{cite book |author=Beatty, Jack |year=1992 |title=The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958 |location=Reading, Mass. |publisher=Addison-Wesley |isbn=0201175991}}
- {{cite book |author=Beatty, Jack |author-mask=1 |year= 2000 |title=The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958 |edition=Paperback |location=New York |publisher=Da Capo Press |isbn=9780306810022}}
- {{cite journal |author=Beatty, Jack |author-mask=1 |date=August 1996 |title=A Race Too Far? |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/08/a-race-too-far/376650/ |department=Politics |journal=The Atlantic Monthly |volume=278 |issue=2 |pages=21–25}}William Weld runs against John Kerry in 1996 U.S. Senate election.
- {{cite book |editor=Jack Beatty |year=2001 |title=Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America |url=https://archive.org/details/colossushowcorpo00beat |url-access=registration |publisher=Broadway Books |isbn=978-0-7679-0352-3}}
- [https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200309u/pp2003-09-24 "A Miserable Failure"], The Atlantic, September 24, 2003
- {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U3eG_QoBRzsC| title=Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865–1900 |publisher=Random House |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-4000-3242-6}}
- {{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/pols00jack| url-access=registration| title=Pols: Great Writers on American Politicians from Bryan to Reagan | editor= Jack Beatty| publisher= PublicAffairs| year= 2004| isbn= 978-1-58648-015-8 }}
- {{cite book |author=Beatty, Jack |year=1998 |title=The World According to Peter Drucker |url=https://archive.org/details/worldaccordingto00beat |url-access=registration |publisher=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
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External links
- [http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/dac&CISOPTR=2214&CISOBOX=1 "Interview with Jack Beatty", Claremont college]
- {{cite news| url=https://www.usatoday.com/money/moneybooks/2001-05-29-colossus.htm| title='Colossus' makes literary sense of U.S. corporations | last= Hillkirk | first= Scott | work= USA TODAY | date=2001-05-29 }}
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Category:21st-century American historians
Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:American Book Award winners
Category:The Atlantic (magazine) people
Category:Boston Latin School alumni
Category:Boston State College alumni
Category:Historians from Massachusetts
Category:Writers from Hanover, New Hampshire