Jefferson Morley
{{Short description|American independent journalist and author}}
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Jefferson Morley is an American independent journalist and author. He has written a number of books about American history, particularly the history of the CIA and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Morley was a Washington Post writer for 15 years.{{cite news |last1=Hage |first1=Dave |date=7 November 2017 |title=Review: 'The Ghost,' by Jefferson Morley |url=https://www.startribune.com/review-the-ghost-by-jefferson-morley/455643623 |work=The Minnesota Star Tribune}}{{cite news |last1=Romenesko |first1=Jim |date=16 October 2007 |title=WP veteran Morley joins Center for Independent Media |url=https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2007/wp-veteran-morley-joins-center-for-independent-media/ |access-date=2025-01-25 |work=Poynter Institute |publisher=}} In 2007, he became the national editorial director for the Center for Independent Media. As of 2022, Morley was vice-president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation.{{cite news |last1=Wang |first1=Amy B. |last2=Paybarah |first2=Azi |date=2022-12-16 |title=National Archives releases thousands of documents on Kennedy assassination |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/15/jfk-assassination-documents-released/ |access-date=2025-01-25 |newspaper=The Washington Post}} He has also written for Salon{{cite web |title=Jefferson Morley |url=https://www.salon.com/writer/jefferson_morley |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=Salon.com |publisher=}} and The Intercept.{{cite web |title=Jefferson Morley |url=https://theintercept.com/staff/jefferson-morley/ |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=The Intercept |date=October 20, 2021 |publisher=}}
Morley grew up in Minneapolis and attended Yale University.
Books
- {{Cite book |last=Morley |first=Jefferson |title=Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA |date=2008 |publisher=University of Kansas Press |isbn=978-0-700-61571-1}}{{Cite journal |last=Wrone |first=David R. |date=2008-12-01 |title=The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy. By David Kaiser. Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the cia. By Jefferson Morley |url=https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/95/3/920/980950?redirectedFrom=fulltext |journal=Journal of American History |volume=95 |issue=3 |pages=920–921 |doi=10.2307/27694519 |jstor=27694519 |issn=0021-8723}}
- {{Cite book |title=Rap: The Lyrics |date=1992 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-14-014788-9 |editor-last=Stanley |editor-first=Lawrence A. |series= |location=New York |editor-last2=Morley |editor-first2=Jefferson}}{{Cite web |date=1992-10-01 |title=Rap: The Lyrics |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/products/935201 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=Booklist}}
- {{Cite book |last=Morley |first=Jefferson |title=Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835 |date=2012 |publisher=Nan A. Talese/Doubleday |isbn=978-0-385-53337-9 |edition= |location=New York |oclc=757466911}}{{Cite web |date=2012-06-01 |title=Snow-Storm in August |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/products/5418571 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=Booklist}}{{Cite journal |last=Asch |first=Chris Myers |date=2012 |title=Review of Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41825445 |journal=Washington History |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=168–170 |jstor=41825445 |issn=1042-9719}}
- {{Cite book |last=Morley |first=Jefferson |title=The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton |date=2017 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-1-250-08061-5 |edition= |location=New York}}{{Cite web |date=2017-09-01 |title=The Ghost |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/products/9001419 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2025-01-25 |website=Booklist}}
- {{Cite book |last=Morley |first=Jefferson |title=Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate |date=2022 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-1-250-27583-7 |location=New York}}{{Cite web |date=2022-03-22 |title=Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate by Jefferson Morley |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250275837 |access-date=2025-01-24 |website=Publishers Weekly}}
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Category:20th-century American journalists
Category:21st-century American journalists
Category:21st-century American historians
Category:American historians of espionage
Category:Historians of the Central Intelligence Agency
Category:Researchers of the assassination of John F. Kennedy
Category:The Washington Post journalists
Category:Yale University alumni
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