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Harmonic Generation 101
In the world of musical instruments and equipment, there's a clear thrust towards new and exciting technology. We've seen in areas like production and DJ how technology is unlocking new ways of working which wouldn't have been available previously.
So it's quite unique, and not a little odd, that the prominent technology in guitar amplification is something that has been around for absolutely ages. And not 'a modern take on old tech' either. Nope. Guitar valves (or tubes, if you're in the US) are exactly the same now as they were when they were used in military radar machines since the 1920s.
But what is a valve? What does is do? Let's focus on amp valves and answer those questions.
Basic Valve Science
We'll just start out by saying this isn't a scientific blog, nor do we claim to fully grasp the inner workings on a technical level. Thankfully, because the technology is so old, it's relatively simple to grasp.
Basically, and this really is basic, there are three components to a valve. In the centre, sticking up, is what's called a cathode. This is gently heated so it releases electrons – ie. tiny flying pieces of electricity. The electrons are naturally drawn towards the next component, the anode, and them completing this journey is what creates a circuit. Left to their own devices, electricity would flow from one source to another until the cows come home. Unfortunately, there's a problem with that.
You see, electricity naturally gives off heat if there's too much of it. So, a third component – a grid – was introduced to add in a bit of control. This grid is negatively charged, causing the barrage of positively charged electrons to be stopped in their tracks. Crucially, this element of control comes from you, the player, when you play your guitar.
The final element comes in the form of the load. In this case, the load is the speaker attached to the valve amp, where the sound comes out.
We know that's extremely basic and anyone with an electrical mind will probably be tearing their hair out. Let's move on quickly…
Why Use Valves?
As anyone who plays guitar will testify, the single biggest differentiation in tone comes from the amplifier. You can play a classic vintage Les Paul, through a small army of guitar pedals, but it'll still be the amp which has the biggest effect on your tone.
Valve amps have one single, defining characteristic which justifies their continued use, and that is harmonics. You see, when the load going into the valves increases, it can create clipping. Clipping, as any producers will know, is when the audio signal being received is slightly too high. In a DAW that will mean the sound pops or crackles, or distorts in a nasty way. For guitarists, it's the opposite. It's that clipping sound which makes this ancient technology so desirable.
Gently clipping (overdriving) a signal adds warmth. Really pushing a valve amp gives you all manner of wonderful distorted tones.
Which Valves For Which Job?
Here's where things get interesting. You see, there are two overall types of valves which do slightly different things. Pre-amp valves are smaller, and are used as the signal enters the amplifier. They typically alter the sound before it reaches the tone stack. On their own they sound pretty fizzy, and don't do a great job of actually amplifying the sound. So, once the signal has worked its way through them it goes onto the power valves.
It's here where the magic really happens, and where the user has the most choice. You see, different amps use different valves. Some famously so. Some are linked with a specific brand or style, and some are linked to a particular type of tone.
As a basic example, we've all heard before how Fender's clean sounds are often recognised as the perfect clean sound. The Fender Custom Deluxe Reverb is a perfect example. Warm, chiming, bell-like. That's down to a large number of their amps using a type of valve called a 6L6.
Alternatively, you may be familiar with Marshall and Orange amps giving players a typically 'British' sound. No coincidence both use EL84 power amp valves.
There is, it must be said, no small amount of debate about how vital valves are to an amp's sound. After all, this is old technology and surely, SURELY someone would have come up with something better by now. After all, they are fragile, expensive, prone to breaking and can be hard to find replacements.
But when you play one for the first time, with a bit of volume behind you, you'll just know. Modelling amps may have come a long way, and be infinitely more practical in some situations, but sometimes you just have to let a valve do its thing. Trust us.
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140 Creative PowerPoint Presentation Topics for College Students
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NEW ARRANGEMENTS AVAILABLE from ChordsUnlimited.com
Welcome to some great singing opportunities. I am putting some of the best barbershop songs from past years into new arrangements. The songs presently available are listed below. Some Christmas carol and hymn arrangements are now also available. Check back often for new arrangements.
Except for the last one, "Follow Me", all of the arrangements listed below are of songs that are in the Public Domain. All of the PD arrangements are free for your use. All but the Great War Medley should be contestable arrangements. While some have already been sung in contest, always check with the arrangement/music category judges for their opinion.
Again, all of the PD arrangements are free for your use. You may make as many copies as you need, whether for your chorus, VLQ or quartet. If anyone asks where you got an arrangement, please just give them my email address or the website name, ChordsUnlimited.com
All the arrangements listed below are instantly available for your consideration. You can print a copy of any pdf file by clicking on the title. You can listen to the arrangement by clicking the mp3 file.
Again, there is no cost for any of the PD arrangements. On a personal note, I would appreciate any feedback you would like to offer about any of the arrangements. Just drop me an email at: email@example.com
If there are any questions or comments, send me an email. I'd appreciate hearing from you.
Thanks for visiting my site. Please pass the information about the site to your singing friends. Just tell them to go to: www.ChordsUnlimited.com
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Available arrangements.
The songs that are currently available are listed below. Those that are available in the women's key have a (W) after the title and those for the men, an (M) after the title. As far as possible, every song I arrange will be available for both women and men. There are some lyrics that can only be set one-way, which I'm sure you appreciate.
It is my intention to create good sing-able arrangements for all barbershoppers. This means songs with a good lyric, a good melody and good barbershop harmony possibilities. You will find them interesting and challenging but not difficult. My interest is in writing for the greatest number of barbershop singers and their audiences.
For the Sake of Auld Lang Syne (M) (mp3)
For the Sake of Auld Land Syne (M) (pdf)
For the Sake of Auld Lang Syne (W) (mp3)
For the Sake of Auld Lang Syne (W) (pdf)
This is a re-do of the arrangement that was popular about 30 years ago.
I Love To Have the Boys Around Me (W) (mp3)
I Love To Have the Boys Around Me (W) (pdf)
This one is just for the ladies.
Runnin' Wild (M) (mp3)
Runnin' Wild (M) (pdf)
Runnin' Wild (W) (mp3)
Runnin" Wild (W) (pdf)
Put on your running shoes, this one moves from first note to the last. There are key changes, a bass lead in part of the song and lots of fun.
They Go Wild, Simply Wild Over Me(W) (mp3)
They Go Wild, Simply wild Over Me (W) (pdf)
Just for the ladies, this is a fun parody about finding the right guy. It was originally sung by the Georgia Connection. The last page of the arrangement is a narrative of the full presentation plan as performed by the Georgia Connection.
The Great War Medley (M) (mp3)
The Great War Medley(M) (pdf)
The Great War Medley (W) (mp3)
The Great War Medley(W) (pdf)
Patriotic music of any era will ignite memories in listeners of any age. This medley was done many years ago for The Atlanta Peachtree Chorus. The songs in the medley include: Over There; Buy A Bond; Smile, Smile, Smile (Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag); It's A Long Way To Tipperary; There's A Picture In My Old Kit Bag; Move A Little Bit Of Broadway To Paris; Yankee Doodle Boy (I'm A Yankee Doodle Boy); and You're A Grand Old Flag. For variety, two of the songs are suggested for a quartet or VLQ. One song is a solo with the chorus accompanying. The lead section can sing the solo line if you wish.
This is a great closing piece for any audience; they will be on their feet by the closing tag.
If I Had My Way (M) (mp3)
If I Had My Way (M) (pdf)
If I Had My Way (W) (mp3)
If I had My Way(W) (pdf)
One of the greatest ballads ever written, all dressed up in a new arrangement. Consider this one for your Valentine sings, too.
Simple Melody (M) (mp3)
Simple Melody (M) (pdf)
Certainly one of Irving Berlin's most familiar tunes. The arrangement includes both of the contrasting melodies arranged for two choruses, a quartet or VLQ and chorus or simply sung by two quartets. Included is a performance suggestion for staging the arrangement as a production piece. Great fun. Check it out.
Follow Me for both women and men. John Denver wrote this one a number of years ago. This arrangement is not in the Public domain. Please order the arrangement from the BHS at 800-876-7464x4127. Speak to Erin Elkins.
Men's key catalog # 113649. Women's key catalog #113650. I did this one for a quartet to sing at a wedding.
Christmas Carols
Here are arrangements of some of the classic carols of of the season. The printing and listening instructions are the same as the above arrangements. Enjoy!
Angels We Have Heard On High (M) (mp3)
Angels We Have Heard On High (M) (pdf)
Angels We Have Heard On High (W) (mp3)
Angels We Have Heard On High (W) (pdf)
A joyous carol with a little influence of J.S. Bach in the "Gloria" refrain. Great fun.
Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly (M) (mp3)
Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly (M) (pdf)
DeclKThe Halls With Boughs Of Holly (W) (mp3)
Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly (W) (pdf)
One of the most popular seasonal carols, but with a few rhythmic twists.
O Come All Ye Faithful (M) (mp3)
O Come All Ye Faithful (M) (pdf)
O Come All Ye Faithful (W) (mp3)
O Come All Ye Faithful (W) (pdf)
The season wouldn't be complete without this carol.
O Holy Night (M) (mp3)
O Holy Night (M) (pdf)
O Holy Night (W) (mp3)
O Holy Night (W) (pdf)
A seasonal classic. It's arranged from the original melody. Feel free to shorten the long
phrase endings in the first half of the song to suit your quartet or chorus.
O Come, O Come Emmanuel (M) (mp3)
O Come, O Come Emmanuel (M) (pdf)
O Come, O Come Emmanuel (W) (mp3)
O Come, O Come Emmanuel (W) (pdf)
The carol begins as it was originally sung, as chant. It also barbershops well and continues in that style. A lovely, contrasting carol for the season.
Hymn Arrangements
We are often asked to sing for church services and other church activities. To hear hymns other than those in most hymnals is always appreciated. That will be the theme of these arrangements.
Behold, A Host, Arrayed In White (M) (mp3)
Behold, A Host, Arrayed In White (M) (pdf)
Behold, A Host, Arrayed In White (W) (mp3)
Behold, A Host Arrayed In White (W) (pdf)
The words are by Hans Adolph Brorson and are set to a 17th century Norwegian hymn. Edvard Grieg made a arrangement of the hymn in 1907. That arrangement has since been re-arranged several times and appears in several hymnals. I have adapted it to the barbershop style.
Endless Song (How Can I Keep From Singing) (M) (mp3)
Endless Song (How Can I Keep From Singing) (M) (pdf)
Endless Song (How Can I Keep From Singing) (W) (mp3)
Endless Song (How Can I keep From Singing) (W) (pdf)
The composer of this hymn, Robert Lowery, may be more well known for other of his hymns, notably, I Need Thee Every Hour and Shall We Gather At The River. However, the melody and harmony of Endless Song will capture your ear and any listener's ear immediately as few other's will. Listen!
Many more are on the way. Check back frequently.
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Kellyanne Conway has deranged on-air meltdown
On Thursday night, CNN host Chris Cuomo interviewed Donald Trump surrogate and pathological liar Kellyanne Conway. He did the best he could to hold her feet to the fire, and we think he got the best of her, as she seemed befuddled by the end of it. But the whole thing was pointless and painful to watch. At the end of Cuomo's show, one of his CNN colleagues lectured him on-air about having Conway on the show.
During the handoff at the top of the hour, Don Lemon spent a good five minutes trying to convince Chris Cuomo to stop giving Kellyanne Conway airtime so she can keep spreading her lies while not answering a single question. This isn't the first time Lemon has told Cuomo to stop having Conway as a guest. But the sheer length of the back-and-forth, and the frustration on both sides, was unprecedented.
Cuomo and Lemon both handled the debate respectfully. While they never did see eye to eye on the Kellyanne Conway question, they were both clearly the most frustrated by the fact that the so-called President of the United States is a pathological liar who keeps sending another pathological liar to do his on-air bidding. When CNN's Brian Stelter posted a video of the lengthy Lemon-Cuomo exchange on Twitter without taking a side, roughly 95% of the commenters agreed with Lemon that Kellyanne should never be on CNN again.
The real solution here of course is for a psychologically deranged lying lunatic like Donald Trump not to be the President of the United States to begin with, so that news networks aren't stuck dealing with a psychologically deranged lying lunatic like Kellyanne Conway as his spokesperson. Until Trump is ousted and America returns to being a democracy, there is no right answer. But we hope Cuomo, who's a straight shooter, decides that Don Lemon is right.
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My oldest went to school for six years before we began homeschooling and for six years, I labored as her room mother. The first couple of years, it was an exhilarating honor to be chosen. I threw myself into the job and was a steady presence at the school. By third grade, I'd earned a solid rep and couldn't get out of it if I tried.
Now as a homeschool mom, I see how valuable I really was. So I hope you'll understand why I am considering placing this ad in our local newspaper.
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Time - that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities
I sometimes wonder if being too imaginative a person is more a curse than a blessing. You can lose yourself in ideas, and the little endorphine rushes that your brain gives you when you have a new brilliant thought, but it doesn't let you achieve anything concrete. And ultimately it leads only to regret about the fact that so little of what you dream up will ever see the light of day.
There is something tragic about this, in its own way. Yes, okay, it's only a "first world problem"; but I live in the first world, so fuck you.
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And ultimately it leads only to regret about the fact that so little of what you dream up will ever see the light of day.ReplyDelete
I know what you mean. My first step for getting around this is to take at least some of the ideas that I have and do something - anything - with them.
I agree with this as well. My brain is constantly humming with ideas, RPG or otherwise and it can be frustrating when nothing comes of them.ReplyDelete
However I've found that my blog is a good outlet for that stuff. I throw it up there and now there is a record (if I decide to use it later) or I can hope that someone else out there may get some enjoyment or inspiration from it.
thanks! And yes. A colleague once said "you can only see a tiny bit of my total creative work. Most of it consists of thoughts I forget before I can write them down."ReplyDelete
Given half a chance I'd also run a game in one of those really early periods in Chinese history that we know mostly through bronze artifacts. It wouldn't be recognisably Chinese at all. And maybe the artifacts would play a ludicrously important part in it. It would be an homage to CoC, which taught me to love bad archaeology.
Cram as many of your ideas as you can into one giant time-travel and/or dimension-hopping mega-sandbox.ReplyDelete


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November goals
Can you believe it's already November 1st? That means in two months, it will be 2012! Crazy, right?
Even though yesterday was Halloween, I was still surprised to see the word November showing up everywhere this morning: on my phone, computer, tv, etc. It just seems like the year has flown by, but then again, I think it feels that way every year.
I haven't done this in a while but I couldn't help but remember that the 1st of the month is a great time to set some new goals. Not like "lose 5 lbs this month" or "do x number of yoga sessions" type of goals. I have been looking at things a lot differently lately. My goals this month are more in the realm of mental and spiritual as opposed to physical challenges.
My November 2011 Goals
- Get at least one more room of our house "finished" – We moved into our new place back in July and sadly, the only thing that's really done is the basement, which is because my awesome husband spent a whole day down there putting it all together. I've just been too busy or tired to get started anywhere else. It makes me feel better to have things in order, so I will remember that as I work on some things this month.
- Send out some handwritten cards – I have a couple of cards to send this month and maybe some more if I think about some people I'd like to contact. One is for a family member that is ill and another for a sweet family at my church.
- Bake, bake, bake – I made some oatmeal raisin and pumpkin cookies this past weekend to take to the Hootenanny and even though I didn't have a lot of time to spend on them, they turned out great and it made me want to make some more stuff. We are having a special "Parent Sunday" at the youth cafe this week, so I will get to start on this goal sooner rather than later 😉 I also want to practice some holiday dishes I hope to make.
- Homemade Christmas presents – Since it's November 1st, this means I have about a month and a half to get my Christmas presents ready. I plan to make a lot of stuff this year, I've already started on some knitting projects and I have some ideas for a few other things. Just need to nail these down, get the supplies and get going. Making things makes me happy!
- Rest – Even though the previous things I've mentioned are going to take up some of my time, I do want to mainly focus on relaxing this week. I have been busy nearly every weekend over the Summer and Fall and finally, November is here and I have ZERO plans on my Saturdays for the next several weeks. I want to go out for coffee, maybe browse a store or two, then spend the rest at home taking naps and snuggling with my doggie 🙂
That's about it over here! What are your goals for November?
Rest? What is that?
I don't know if you know this about me, but I do not like "rest" days!
It's not that I mind taking a day off from running by doing another activity or taking it easy with my workout from time to time. I just don't like those days when I'm not supposed to (or can't) do anything!
Unfortunately, now that I am sick, I must take complete rest days. On Tuesday, the first day I felt ill, I took a 45 minute walk. But ever since then I have not done anything but sit, lay down, drink lots of fluids and eat some nutrient dense food (and some not-so-nutrient-dense, ha ha).
With a 10 mile race coming up next Saturday, I will admit to being a little nervous but I can say with a sound mind that I have done the best I can with my training. Life happens, things come up, people get sick, we run out of time, etc.
I don't care if I have to run-walk this race or if my time is slower this year. I'm not hoping to do anything but show up and have a good time!
I will start reporting my workouts again when they start happening again. I'm trying to take little walks here and there while I'm at work but nothing too strenuous. Thank you all for your feedback on my last post!
Nailing down a training program
After the meeting last night, I started going through the training materials we were given, which included a detailed calendar / training schedule.
I had already been loosely following this one for a couple of days but I felt it was time to finally nail down some specific program guidelines that I know will work for me, using the provided program as my base. Everyone is different, so make sure you do this for yourself too if you are planning on training for any races soon.
I should add that every day and week will be different and life is likely to get in the way sometimes. But for now, here are some goals I have for my training over the next 16 weeks!
Sarah's Goals for Half Marathon Training
- Run 4 days/week – This is at most! Any more and I will get injured or burned out like I did in 2008. I also want to try and make these non-consecutive days when possible.
- Do weight training 1x /week – This is an actual weight training session (which I will use for my cross-training day). I may do some strength moves on short run days to keep up my strength.
- Do yoga 1x/week – This will either be a class (or Yoga Download) done on a rest day. Obviously I could do it more than once so this is a minimum.
- Have one day of complete rest – No excuses. This will likely be Sundays 🙂
Are you running any races this Spring? What do you do to train for them?


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David Halberstam — The Best and The Brightess — 20th Anniversary Edition — Videos
David Halberstam, 1934-2007
David Halberstam on Covering War in the Vietnam War
David Halberstam Talks About Vietnam
David Halberstam begins his career in 1955 as a reporter with the West Point, Miss., Daily Times Leader. By 1962, he's reporting for The New York Times in Vietnam. Halberstam wins a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 1964. Among the books he authors are "The Best and the Brightest" (1972) and "The Powers That Be" (1979).
Vietnam War and the Presidency: Keynote Speaker
David Halberstam, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, gives the opening lecture at "Vietnam and the Presidency", a national conference where leading historians, key policymakers of the Vietnam War era, and journalists who covered the war examine the antecedents of the war, presidential decision-making, media coverage, public opinion, lessons learned and the influence of the Vietnam experience on subsequent US foreign policy.
The Vietnam War was the longest and most controversial war that the United States ever fought. It claimed the lives of more than 58,000 Americans and over three million Vietnamese. From the arrival of the first US military advisors in the 1950s to the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, US involvement in Viet Nam was central to the Cold War foreign policies of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford. The war has continued to affect the policies of subsequent presidents, and its legacy is particularly relevant today during America's war on terror.
David Halberstam – America Then and Now – 04/27/06
David Halberstam is a legendary figure in American journalism. A graduate of Harvard University, he joined The New York Times in 1960 and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Vietnam War. His landmark trilogy of books on power in America, The Best and the Brightest, The Powers that Be, and The Reckoning, received wide critical acclaim. He is the author of fourteen bestselling books, including The Next Century, where he explores the American agenda for the 21st century; The Fifties, which examines the decade he considers seminal in shaping America today; and War in a Time of Peace, which recounts the impact of Vietnam on current U.S. foreign policy.
Conversations with History: Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg: Secrets – Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
"Terminate With Extreme Prejudice" Daniel Ellsberg Talks About CIA Plot To Assassinate Him
Conversations with History: Neil Sheehan
The Early Years of the Vietnam War: Young War Correspondents (1996)
Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan (born October 27, 1936) is an American journalist. As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. His series of articles revealed a secret U.S. Department of Defense history of the Vietnam War and led to a U.S. Supreme Court case when the United States government attempted to halt publication.
He received a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for his 1988 book A Bright Shining Lie, about the life of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann and the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Born in Holyoke, Massachusetts and raised on a farm nearby, Sheehan graduated from Mount Hermon School (later Northfield Mount Hermon) and Harvard University with a B.A. in 1958. He served in the U.S. Army from 1959 to 1962, when he was assigned to Korea, and then transferred to Tokyo, where he did work moonlighting in the Tokyo bureau of United Press International (UPI). After his stint in the army he spent two years covering the war in Vietnam as UPI's Saigon bureau chief. Sheehan relied heavily for information on Phạm Xuân Ẩn, who was later revealed to be a North Vietnamese agent. In 1963, during the Buddhist crisis, he and David Halberstam debunked the claim by the Ngô Đình Diệm regime that the Army of the Republic of Vietnam regular forces had perpetrated the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids, which U.S. authorities initially accepted. They showed instead that the raiders were Special Forces loyal to Diệm's brother, Nhu, and motivated to frame the army generals. In 1964 he joined The New York Times and worked the city desk for a while before returning to the Far East, first to Indonesia and then to spend another year in Vietnam.
Vietnam- A turning point for reporting war
27/08/2010 – Join us for this special event to discuss the iconic war reportage, to mark 35 years since the end of the Vietnam War.
This special event brings together reporters who covered Vietnam to reflect on the war that changed the way the public think about conflict.
Saturation bombing, worldwide protests, napalm, agent orange and an estimated two million lives lost.
Has any war since had such an impact on the public psyche? Why was the reaction to the carnage in Vietnam so strong? Was it because of a lack of conviction in the cause the US was fighting for? Or was it because of these reporters and photographers and their work that so poignantly captured the brutality of war?
Jon Swain was the only British journalist in Phnom Penh when it fell to the Khmer Rouge in April 1975. His coverage of these events and their aftermath won him the British Press Award for Journalist of the Year. His story was retold in the Oscar-winning film, The Killing Fields and his bestselling book River of Time. Swain wrote an article about covering Vietnam in his early 20s in the most recent issue of Frontline: A Broadsheet.
French war photographer Patrick Chauvel was only 18 when he started covering the Vietnam war. In the years that followed he has covered over 20 wars and in 1995 won the World Press Photo award for Spot News. He is the author of two books in French, Rapporteur de Guerre and Sky.
John Laurence, author of the prize-winning memoir The Cat from Hue, covered the war for CBS News from 1965 to 1970 and made the multi-award winning documentary The World of Charlie Company. He also covered 15 other wars in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
This special event will be moderated by Michael Nicholson OBE, former senior foreign correspondent for ITN. Nicholson reported for over 25 years from 15 conflicts, including Vietnam. The film Welcome to Sarajevo and his book Natasha's Story were both based on his experiences covering the war in Bosnia.
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David Halberstam's The Fifties: "The Fear and the Dream" Part 2
David Halberstam's The Fifties: "Let's Play House"
David Halberstam's The Fifties: "Selling The American Way"
David Halberstam's The Fifties: "A Burning Desire"
David Halberstam's The Fifties: "The Beat"
David Halberstam's The Fifties: "THE RAGE WITHIN"
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David Halberstam
|David Halberstam
Halberstam in 1978
|April 10, 1934
New York City, U.S.
|April 23, 2007 (aged 73)
Menlo Park, California, U.S.
|Journalist, historian, writer
|Harvard University
|Elżbieta Czyżewska (1965–1977; divorced)
Jean Sandness Butler (1979-2007; his death; 1 child)
David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 – April 23, 2007) was an American journalist and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and later, sports journalism.[1] He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1964. In 2007, while doing research for a book, Halberstam was killed in a car crash.[2][3]
Early life and education
Halberstam was born in New York City and raised in Winsted, Connecticut, where he was a classmate of Ralph Nader, moving to Yonkers, New York and graduating from Roosevelt High School in 1951.[4] In 1955 he graduated from Harvard College in the bottom third of his class[5] with a BA after serving as managing editor of The Harvard Crimson.
Halberstam's journalism career began at the Daily Times Leader in West Point, MS, the smallest daily newspaper in Mississippi. He covered the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement for The Tennessean in Nashville.[citation needed]
Halberstam arrived in Vietnam in the middle of 1962, to be a full-time Vietnam reporter for The New York Times.[6] Halberstam, like many other US journalists covering Vietnam, relied heavily for information on Phạm Xuân Ẩn, who was later revealed to be a secret North Vietnamese agent.[7]
In 1963, Halberstam received a George Polk Award for his reporting at The New York Times, including his eyewitness account of the self-immolation of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức.[8]
During the Buddhist crisis, he and Neil Sheehan debunked the claim by the Diệm regime that the Army of the Republic of Vietnam regular forces had perpetrated the brutal raids on Buddhist temples, which the American authorities had initially believed, but that the Special Forces, loyal to Diệm's brother and strategist Nhu, had done so to frame the army generals. He was also involved in a scuffle with Nhu's secret police after they punched fellow journalist Peter Arnett while the pressmen were covering a Buddhist protest.[citation needed]
Halberstam left Vietnam in 1964, at age 30, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting that year.[2] He is interviewed in the 1968 documentary film on the Vietnam War entitled In the Year of the Pig.[citation needed]
Civil Rights Movement and Poland
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In the mid-1960s, Halberstam covered the Civil Rights Movement for The New York Times. He was sent on assignment to Poland, where he soon became 'an attraction from behind the Iron Curtain' to the artistic boheme in Warsaw. The result of that fascination was a 12-year marriage to one of the most popular young actresses of that time, Elżbieta Czyżewska, on June 13, 1965.
Initially well received by the communist regime, two years later he was expelled from the country as persona non grata for publishing an article in The New York Times, criticizing the Polish government. Czyżewska followed him, becoming an outcast herself; that decision disrupted her career in the country where she was a big star, adored by millions. In the spring of 1967, Halberstam travelled with Martin Luther King Jr. from New York City to Cleveland and then to Berkeley, California for a Harper's article, "The Second Coming of Martin Luther King". While at the Times, he gathered material for his book The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam during the Kennedy Era.
Foreign policy, media works
Halberstam next wrote about President John F. Kennedy's foreign policy decisions on the Vietnam War in The Best and the Brightest. In 1972, Halberstam went to work on his next book, The Powers That Be, published in 1979 and featuring profiles of media titans like William S. Paley of CBS, Henry Luce of Time magazine, and Phil Graham of The Washington Post.
In 1980 his brother, cardiologist Michael J. Halberstam, was murdered during a burglary.[9] His only public comment related to his brother's murder came when he and Michael's widow castigated Life magazine, then published monthly, for paying Michael's killer $9,000 to pose in jail for color photographs that appeared on inside pages of the February 1981 edition of Life.[10]
In 1991, Halberstam wrote The Next Century, in which he argued that, after the end of the Cold War, the United States was likely to fall behind economically to other countries such as Japan and Germany.[11]
Sports writing
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Later in his career, Halberstam turned to sports, publishing The Breaks of the Game, an inside look at Bill Walton and the 1979-80 Portland Trail Blazers basketball team; Playing for Keeps, an ambitious book on Michael Jordan in 1999; Summer of '49, on the baseball pennant race battle between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox; and The Education of a Coach, about New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick. Much of his sports writing, particularly his baseball books, focuses on the personalities of the players and the times they lived in as much as on the games themselves.
In particular, Halberstam depicted the 1949 Yankees and Boston Red Sox as symbols of a nobler era, when blue-collar athletes modestly strove to succeed and enter the middle class, rather than making millions and defying their owners and talking back to the press. In 1997, Halberstam received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College.
Later years
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After publishing four books in the 1960s, including the novel The Noblest Roman, The Making of a Quagmire, and The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy, he wrote three books in the 1970s, four books in the 1980s, and six books in the 1990s, including his 1999 The Children which chronicled the 1959–1962 Nashville Student Movement. He wrote four more books in the 2000s and was working on at least two others at the time of his death.
In the wake of 9/11, Halberstam wrote a book about the events in New York City, Firehouse, which describes the life of the men from Engine 40, Ladder 35 of the New York City Fire Department. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, the last book Halberstam completed, was published posthumously in September 2007.
Halberstam died on April 23, 2007 at 10:30 a.m. in a traffic accident in Menlo Park, California near the Dumbarton Bridge, one week and six days after his 73rd birthday.[12]
After Halberstam's death, the book project was taken over by Frank Gifford, who played for the losing New York Giants in the 1958 game, and was titled The Glory Game, published by HarperCollins in October 2008 with an introduction dedicated to David Halberstam.[13]
Halberstam was generous with his time and advice to other authors. To cite just one instance, author Howard Bryant in the Acknowledgments section of Juicing the Game, his 2005 book about steroids in baseball, said of Halberstam's assistance: "He provided me with a succinct road map and the proper mind-set." Bryant went on to quote Halberstam on how to tackle a controversial non-fiction subject: "Think about three or four moments that you believe to be the most important during your time frame. Then think about what the leadership did about it. It doesn't have to be complicated. What happened, and what did the leaders do about it? That's your book."[citation needed]
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Korean War correspondent Marguerite Higgins was the staunchest pro-Diệm journalist in the Saigon press corps, frequently clashing with her younger male colleagues such as Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett, and Halberstam. She claimed they had ulterior motives, saying "reporters here would like to see us lose the war to prove they're right."[14]
Conservative military and diplomatic historian Mark Moyar[15] claimed that Halberstam, along with fellow Vietnam journalists Neil Sheehan and Stanley Karnow helped to bring about the 1963 South Vietnamese coup against President Diệm by sending negative information on Diệm to the U.S. government in news articles and in private, all because they decided Diệm was unhelpful in the war effort. Moyar claims that much of this information was false or misleading.[16] Sheehan, Karnow, and Halberstam all won Pulitzer Prizes for their work on the war.[citation needed]
Newspaper opinion editor Michael Young says Halberstam saw Vietnam as a moralistic tragedy, with America's pride deterministically bringing about its downfall. Young writes that Halberstam reduced everything to human will, turning his subjects into agents of broader historical forces and coming off like a Hollywood movie with a fated and formulaic climax.[17]
Awards and honors
- 2009: Norman Mailer Prize, Distinguished Journalism
- 1964: Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Malcolm W. Browne and Halberstam[2]
- The Noblest Roman. Houghton Mifflin. 1961. ASIN: B0007DSNRM. (novel)
- The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era. McGraw-Hill. 1965. ISBN 0-07-555092-X.[18]
- One Very Hot Day. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin. 1967. ASIN B000HFUAT4. (novel)
- The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy. Random House. 1968. ISBN 0-394-45025-6.
- Ho. McGraw-Hill. 1971. ISBN 0-07-554223-4.
- The Best and the Brightest. Ballantine Books. 1972. ISBN 0-449-90870-4.
- The Powers That Be. Alfred A. Knopf. 1979. ISBN 0-252-06941-2.
- The Breaks of the Game. Ballantine Books. 1981. ISBN 0-345-29625-7.
- The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal. Ballantine Books. 1985. ISBN 0-449-91003-2. — about the sport of rowing
- The Reckoning. Avon Books. 1986. ISBN 0-380-72147-3.
- Summer of '49. New York: William Morrow & Co. 1989. ISBN 0-6880-6678-X.
- The Next Century. Random House. 1991. ISBN 0-517-09882-2.
- The Fifties. Ballantine Books. 1993. ISBN 0-449-90933-6.
- October 1964. Ballantine Books. 1994. ISBN 0-449-98367-6.
- The Children. Ballantine Books. 1999. ISBN 0-449-00439-2.
- Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made. Broadway Books. 1999. ISBN 0-7679-0444-3.
- War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals. Scribner. 2001. ISBN 0-7432-2323-3.
- Firehouse. 2002. ISBN 0-7868-8851-2.
- The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship. Hyperion. 2003. ISBN 0-7868-8867-9.
- The Education of a Coach. Hyperion. 2005. ISBN 1-4013-0879-1.
- The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War. Hyperion. 2007. ISBN 1-4013-0052-9.
- The Glory Game: How the 1958 NFL Championship Changed Football Forever. HarperCollins. 2008. ISBN 0-06-154255-5. — in progress at Halberstam's death; completed by Frank Gifford
See also
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Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency
Mark Updegrove, named "one of the country's best historians" by CNN, is director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum. He discussed his book, "Indomitable Will," which provides a portrait of LBJ through the stories and recollections of those who were with him everyday during his presidency. The session was moderated by Terri Garner, director of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library.
This footage has been provided by the Clinton School of Public Service. The Clinton School of Public Service is the only school in the nation to offer a Master's Degree in public service. It is located on the grounds of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library. The Clinton School's Distinguished Lecture Series are speakers whom speak at the Clinton School, and can be attended by the general public through reserving a seat. More about the Clinton School of Public Service can be found at the link below;
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Q&A: Robert Caro – Part 1
Pulitzer prize winning author and historian Robert Caro discusses his newly released biography of Lyndon Johnson entitled "The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power." This is his fourth book in the Johnson biographical series and Caro promises a fifth and final book in the future. The period covered in the book is from 1958 until early 1964.
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Indomitable Will
|Mark K. Updegrove
|United States
|Crown Publishing Group
Publication date
|March 13, 2012
|Media type
Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency is a biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson by Mark K. Updegrove, published in 2012.
Plot summary
Indomitable Will is a compilation of original interviews, personal accounts and recollections of individuals who knew, worked with and for President Lyndon Johnson during his five years as President of the United States. Sources include the Reverend Billy Graham, Carl Bernstein, Liz Carpenter, George H. W. Bush, Walter Mondale, Harry Middleton, Rose Kennedy, Gerald R. Ford, Helen Thomas, Ted Kennedy, and Bill Moyers, who served as White House Press Secretary in the Johnson Administration.[1]
The book focuses on the extensive legislation passed during Johnson's Presidency and includes photographs, transcripts from his telephone conversations, and previously unpublished documents.[2][3]
The author is a Presidential historian who has written two additional non-fiction works based on the lives of American Presidents: Baptism by Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis (2009), and Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House (2006).[4]
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- http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120520/PC1201/120529960/1003/updegrove-chronicles-the-course-of-lbj-s-remarkable-presidency-in-indomitable-will May 20, 2012
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- http://blog.laptopmag.com/enhanced-indomitable-will-e-book-reveals-the-true-lbj May 9, 2012
- http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/books/20120427-lyndon-b.-johnson-biography-sympathizes-with-the-36th-president.ece April 27, 2012
- http://www.eyeonbooks.com/interviews/mark-updegrove-indomitable-will/ April 26, 2012
- http://www.kansan.com/news/2012/apr/24/other-side-lyndon-b-johnson/ April 24, 2012
- http://livingthedream.org/2012/04/07/ltd-podcast-mark-updegrove-author-of-indomitable-will-lbj-in-the-presidency/ April 7, 2012
- http://www.statesman.com/life/books/lbj-books-offer-different-takes-on-nov-22-2289605.html April 7, 2012
- http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/books/article/LBJ-oral-history-holds-surprises-3427962.php March 23, 2012
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Mark K. Updegrove[1] (born August 25, 1961) is an American author, historian, journalist, television commentator, and director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas.
Early life and education
Updegrove was born outside Philadelphia in Abington, PA, on Aug. 25, 1961. He attended high school in Newtown, PA, at the George School, which honored him with its Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2015.[2] He attended Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, and graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a Bachelor of Arts in economics in 1984.
Magazine Publishing
Updegrove spent much of his early career in magazine publishing, including serving as manager of Time Magazine in Los Angeles; president of Time Canada, Time's separate Canadian edition and operation; and, publisher of Newsweek.
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
Since October 2009, Updegrove has served as the fourth director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas.
Under Updegrove's direction, the library partnered with the Aspen Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Turn 50, in Washington, D.C, in April 2015, and in November 2015, partnered with WETA-TV, on In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of American Creativity, which aired on PBS, to mark the 50th anniversary of the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Early in his tenure at the library, Updegrove oversaw the $11 million renovation of the library's core exhibits on Lyndon Johnson and his administration, which opened in December 2012.[3][4]
Updegrove's December 2014 Politico article, What 'Selma' Gets Wrong,[5] ignited a controversy over the portrayal of Lyndon Johnson as an obstructionist on voting rights in the film Selma, touching off a debate about the importance of accuracy in films based on historic events. In January 2015, Updegrove addressed the issue on CBS' Face the Nation.[6]
Adjunct Professor/Lecturer
In 2013 and 2015, Updegrove taught The Johnson Years for Liberal Arts Honors students as an adjunct professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He has spoken extensively at numerous colleges and universities, museums, presidential libraries, and other public speaking forums.
Selected publications
- Destiny of Democracy: The Civil Rights Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library (University of Texas Press, 2015)
- Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency (Crown Publishers, 2012)[7]
- Baptism By Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office During Times of Crisis (St. Martins Press, 2009)[8]
- Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House (Lyons Press, 2006)[9]
- Jump up^ Staff, Public Affairs. "Mark Updegrove Named New Director of LBJ Library". The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
- Jump up^ "Alumni Award Recipient 2015 – George School". Retrieved 2016-08-15.
- Jump up^ Shannon, Kelley. "LBJ library in Austin to unveil $10 million update Dec. 22". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- Jump up^ Baskas, Harriet. "Oval Office audio tapes highlight redesigned LBJ Presidential Library". NBC News. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- Jump up^ "What 'Selma' Gets Wrong". Politico. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- Jump up^ "Does the film "Selma" portray LBJ unfairly?". Face the Nation. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
- Jump up^ Ealy, Charles. "'Indomitable Will' seeks to give LBJ due credit". statesman.com. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
- Jump up^ Heilbrunn, Jacob. "Crisis Management". The New York Times Company. Retrieved 16 January 2009.
- Jump up^ "Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 6 June 2006.
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- Statesman April 7, 2012
- The Daily Texan Feb 1, 2011
- Appearances on C-SPAN
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro. Four volumes have been published, running to more than 3,000 pages in total, detailing Johnson's early life, education, and political career. A fifth volume will deal with the bulk of Johnson's presidency. The series is published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Book One: The Path to Power (1982)
In the first volume, The Path to Power, Caro retraced Johnson's early life growing up in the Texas Hill Country and Washington, D.C.. (Caro moved to these areas for months to interview numerous people who knew Johnson and his family.) This volume covers Johnson's life through his failed 1941 campaign for the United States Senate. This book was released on November 12, 1982. It won the 1982 National Book Critics Circle Award. It was a finalist for the 1983 National Book Award, hardcover autobiography or biography.[1]
Book Two: Means of Ascent (1990)
In the second volume, Means of Ascent, Caro detailed Johnson's life from the aftermath of Johnson's first bid to his election to the U.S. Senate in 1948. Much of the book deals with Johnson's bitterly contested Democratic primary against Coke R. Stevenson in that year. The book was released on March 7, 1990.
Book Three: Master of the Senate (2002)
In the third volume, Master of the Senate, Caro chronicles Johnson's rapid ascent in United States Congress, including his tenure as Senate majority leader. This 1,167-page work examines in particular Johnson's battle to pass a landmark civil rights bill through Congress without it tearing apart his party, whose southern bloc was anti-civil rights with the northern faction more supportive of civil rights. Although its scope was limited, the ensuing Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first such legislation since the Reconstruction era. The book was released on April 23, 2002. It won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, the 2002 National Book Award for Nonfiction,[2] the 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, and the 2002 D.B. Hardeman Prize.[3]
Book Four: The Passage of Power (2012)
In the fourth volume, The Passage of Power, Caro covers Johnson's life from 1958 to 1964, the challenges Johnson faced upon his assumption of the presidency, and the significant accomplishments in the months after Kennedy's assassination.[4] The 736-page book was released on May 1, 2012. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award (2012; Biography),[5] the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2012; Biography),[6] the Mark Lynton History Prize (2013), the American History Book Prize (2013)[7] and the Biographers International Organization's Plutarch Award (2013).[8] It was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2012).[9] It was selected as one of Time magazine's Best Books of the Year (non-fiction #2).
Book five
In November 2011, Caro estimated that the fifth and final volume would require another two to three years to write.[10] In March 2013, he affirmed a commitment to completing the series with a fifth volume.[11] As of April 2014, he was continuing to research the book.[12]
Themes of the series
Throughout the biography, Caro examines the acquisition and use of political power in American democracy, from the perspective both of those who wield it and those who are at its mercy. In an interview with Kurt Vonnegut and Daniel Stern, he once said: "I was never interested in writing biography just to show the life of a great man," saying he wanted instead "to use biography as a means of illuminating the times and the great forces that shape the times—particularly political power."[13]
Caro's books portray Johnson as alternating between scheming opportunist and visionary progressive. Caro argues, for example, that Johnson's victory in the 1948 runoff for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate was achieved through extensive fraud and ballot stuffing, just as Johnson had lost his 1941 senate race because his opponent stuffed the ballot boxes more than Johnson. Caro also highlights some of Johnson's campaign contributions, such as those from the Texas construction firm Brown & Root; in 1962 the company was acquired by another Texas firm, Halliburton, which became a major contractor in the Vietnam War. Despite these criticisms, Caro's portrayal of Johnson also notes his struggles on behalf of progressive causes such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Influence of the series
Politicians in particular have responded most strongly to The Years of Lyndon Johnson:
- Tom Daschle, a former Senate majority leader, once told the newspaper Roll Call after reading Master of the Senate that "I think the thing you learn from reading that magnificent book is that every day, this body makes history."
- Walter Mondale, a former US vice president, described Master of the Senate as a "superb work of history."
- Gordon Brown, a former British prime minister, said of the series: "It's a wonderfully written set of books. The stories are quite breathtaking … These books challenge the view of history that politics is just about individual maneuvering. It's about ideas and principled policy achievements. That's what makes it one of the great political biographies."[14]
- William Hague, a former British Conservative Party leader and foreign secretary, nominated Means of Ascent as the book he would most like to have with him on a desert island, in the BBC Radio 4 program Desert Island Discs. He later wrote: "I explained that it was the best political biography of any kind, that I had ever read. I said it conveyed more brilliantly than any other publication what it really feels like to be a politician … When a fourth volume finally completes the set, this will be nothing short of a magnificent history of 20th century America."[14]
- Michael Howard, another former Conservative Party leader, encountered the series after swapping houses with Caro for a holiday. He said, "For Caro, writing a biography is writing a thriller—in Johnson's case, a Western. You can't stop turning the pages. He doesn't like Johnson, but the facts are there so you can make your own judgments. I can't recommend this book highly enough."[14]
See also
- All the Way – play
- Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power. 1982. Alfred a Knopf Inc., New York. (ISBN 0-679-72945-3). xxiii + 882 p. + 48 p. of plates: illus.
- Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent. 1990. Alfred a Knopf Inc., New York. (ISBN 0-679-73371-X). xxxiv + 506 pp.
- Caro, Robert A., Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. 2002. Alfred a Knopf Inc, New York. (ISBN 0-394-72095-4). xxiv + 1167 pp.
- Caro, Robert A., The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. 2012. Alfred a Knopf Inc, New York. (ISBN 0-375-71325-5). 736 pp.
- Jump up^ "National Book Awards – 1983". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- Jump up^ "National Book Awards – 2002". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-20. (With acceptance speech.)
- Jump up^ "Recipients of the D. B. Hardeman Prize". LBJ Foundation. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- Jump up^ Kakutani, Michiko (April 29, 2012). "A Nation's Best and Worst, Forged in a Crucible". New York Times.
- Jump up^ John Williams (March 1, 2013). "Robert A. Caro, Ben Fountain Among National Book Critics Circle Winners". New York Times. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
- Jump up^ Staff writer (April 19, 2013). "Announcing the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize winners". LA Times. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
- Jump up^ Jennifer Schuessler (February 20, 2013). "Another Prize for Robert Caro". New York Times. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
- Jump up^ "Biographers International Organization, The Plutarch Award".
- Jump up^ "National Book Award Finalists Announced Today". Library Journal. October 10, 2012. Retrieved 2012-11-15.
- Jump up^ Associated Press (November 1, 2011). "APNewsBreak: Caro's fourth LBJ book coming in May". CNSNews.com. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
- Jump up^ Erik Spanberg (March 8, 2013). "Catching up with award-winning LBJ biographer Robert Caro". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
- Jump up^ Patrick Beach (April 5, 2014). "Caro, LBJ biographer, is hard at work on book No. 5". Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
- Jump up^ Barbara Stone, ed. (1999). "The Round Table: Fiction, Biography And The Use Of Power". Hampton Shorts. Water Mill, N.Y.: Hamptons Literary Publications. IV. ISBN 0-9658652-2-3.
- ^ Jump up to:a b c "Reviews". http://www.robertcaro.com. Robert A. Caro. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
External links
- Official website of Robert Caro
- Booknotes interview with Caro on Means of Ascent, April 29, 1990
- In Depth interview with Caro, April 7, 2002
- C-SPAN Q&A interview with Caro about the writing of his fourth volume, January 4, 2009
- Part one of C-SPAN Q&A interview with Caro about the finished book, The Passage of Power, May 6, 2012
- Part two of C-SPAN Q&A interview with Caro about The Passage of Power, May 20, 2012
Robert Caro
|Robert Caro
|Robert Allan Caro
October 30, 1935
New York City, New York, United States
|Upper West Side
|Notable work
|The Power Broker
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
|Ina Joan Sloshberg Caro (m. 1957)[3]
|Chase A. Caro
|Benjamin and Cele (Mendelow) Caro
|Writing career
Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his celebrated biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.
After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, which was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century.[5] He has since written four of a planned five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982, 1990, 2002, 2012), a biography of the former president.
For his biographies, he has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography, the National Book Award, the Francis Parkman Prize (awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that "best exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist"), two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the H.L. Mencken Award, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, the D.B. Hardeman Prize, and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Life and career[edit]
Caro was born in New York City, the son of Cele (née Mendelow) and Benjamin Caro.[3] He "grew up on Central Park West at 94th Street. His father, a businessman, spoke Yiddish as well as English, but he didn't speak either very often. He was 'very silent,' Caro said, and became more so after Caro's mother died, after a long illness, when he [Caro] was 12." It was his mother's deathbed wish that he should go to the Horace Mann School, an exclusive private school in the Riverdale section of The Bronx. As a student there, Caro translated an edition of his school newspaper into Russian and mailed 10,000 copies to students in the USSR. He graduated in 1953.[6] He went on to Princeton University, where he majored in English. He became managing editor of The Daily Princetonian, second to R.W. Apple, Jr., later a prominent editor at The New York Times.[7]
His writings, both in class and out, had been lengthy since his years at Horace Mann. A short story he wrote for The Princeton Tiger, the school's humor magazine, took up almost an entire issue. His senior thesis on existentialism in Hemingway was so long, Caro claims, that the university's English department subsequently established a maximum length for senior theses by its students. He graduated cum laude in 1957.[1][7]
According to a 2012 New York Times Magazine profile, "Caro said he now thinks that Princeton, which he chose because of its parties, was one of his mistakes, and that he should have gone to Harvard. Princeton in the mid-1950s was hardly known for being hospitable towards the Jewish community, and though Caro says he did not personally suffer from anti-Semitism, he saw plenty of students who did." He had a sports column in the Princetonian and also wrote for the Princeton Tiger humor magazine.[7] He was a Carnegie Fellow at Columbia University and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
Caro began his professional career as a reporter with the New Brunswick Daily Home News (now merged into the Home News Tribune) in New Jersey. He took a brief leave to work for the Middlesex County Democratic Party as a publicist. He left politics after an incident where he was accompanying the party chair to polling places on election day. A police officer reported to the party chair that some African-Americans Caro saw being loaded into a police van, under arrest, were poll watchers who "had been giving them some trouble." Caro left politics right there. "I still think about it," he recalled in the 2012 Times Magazine profile. "It wasn't the roughness of the police that made such an impression. It was the—meekness isn't the right word—the acceptance of those people of what was happening."[7]
From there he went on to six years as an investigative reporter with the Long Island newspaper Newsday. One of the articles he wrote was a long series about why a proposed bridge across Long Island Sound from Rye to Oyster Bay, championed by Robert Moses, would have been inadvisable, requiring piers so large it would disrupt tidal flows in the sound, among other problems. Caro believed that his work had influenced even the state's powerful governor Nelson Rockefeller to reconsider the idea, until he saw the state's Assembly vote overwhelmingly to pass a preliminary measure for the bridge.[7]
"That was one of the transformational moments of my life," Caro said years later. It led him to think about Moses for the first time. "I got in the car and drove home to Long Island, and I kept thinking to myself: 'Everything you've been doing is baloney. You've been writing under the belief that power in a democracy comes from the ballot box. But here's a guy who has never been elected to anything, who has enough power to turn the entire state around, and you don't have the slightest idea how he got it.'"[7]
The Power Broker[edit]
Caro spent the academic year of 1965–1966 as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. During a class on urban planning and land use, the experience of watching Moses returned to him.
They were talking one day about highways and where they got built…and here were these mathematical formulas about traffic density and population density and so on, and all of a sudden I said to myself: "This is completely wrong. This isn't why highways get built. Highways get built because Robert Moses wants them built there. If you don't find out and explain to people where Robert Moses gets his power, then everything else you do is going to be dishonest."[7]
To do so, Caro began work on a biography of Moses, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, also a study of Caro's favorite theme: the acquisition and use of power. He expected it would take nine months to complete, but instead it took him until 1974.[7] The work was based on extensive research and 522 interviews, including seven interviews with Moses himself, several with Michael Madigan (who worked for Moses for 35 years); and numerous interviews with Sidney Shapiro (Moses's general manager for forty years); as well as interviews with men who worked for and knew Moses's mentor, New York Governor Al Smith.
His wife Ina functioned as his research assistant. Her master's thesis on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge stemmed from this work. At one point she sold the family home and took a teaching job so Robert would be financially able to finish the book.[7]
The Power Broker is widely viewed [1] as a seminal work because it combined painstaking historical research with a smoothly flowing narrative writing style. The success of this approach was evident in his chapter on the construction of the Cross-Bronx Expressway, where Caro reported the controversy from all perspectives, including that of neighborhood residents. The result was a work of powerful literary as well as academic interest.
The Years of Lyndon Johnson[edit]
Following The Power Broker, Caro turned his attention to President Lyndon B. Johnson. Caro retraced Johnson's life by temporarily moving to rural Texas and Washington, D.C., in order to better understand Johnson's upbringing and to interview anyone who had known Johnson. The work, entitled The Years of Lyndon Johnson, was originally intended as a trilogy, but is projected to encompass five volumes:
- The Path to Power (1982) covers Johnson's life up to his failed 1941 campaign for the United States Senate.
- Means of Ascent (1990) commences in the aftermath of that defeat and continues through his election to that office in 1948.
- Master of the Senate (2002) chronicles Johnson's rapid ascent and rule as Senate Majority Leader.
- The Passage of Power (2012) details the 1960 election, LBJ's life as vice president, the JFK assassination and his first days as president.
- In November 2011, Caro announced that the full project had expanded to five volumes with the fifth requiring another two to three years to write.[8][9][10] It will cover Johnson and Vietnam, the Great Society and civil rights era, his decision not to run in 1968, and eventual retirement.
Caro's books portray Johnson as a complex and contradictory character: at the same time a scheming opportunist and visionary progressive. Caro argues, for example, that Johnson's victory in the 1948 runoff for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate was only achieved through extensive fraud and ballot box stuffing, though this is set in the practices of the time and in the context of Johnson's previous defeat in his 1941 race for the Senate, the victim of exactly similar chicanery. Caro also highlighted some of Johnson's campaign contributions, such as those from the Texas construction firm Brown and Root; in 1962 the company was acquired by another Texas firm, Halliburton, which became a major contractor in the Vietnam War. In addition, Caro argued that Johnson was awarded the Silver Star in World War II for political as well as military reasons, and that he later lied to journalists and the public about the circumstances for which it was awarded. Caro's portrayal of Johnson also notes his struggles on behalf of progressive causes such as the Voting Rights Act, and his consummate skill in getting this enacted in spite of intense opposition from Southern Democrats.
Among sources close to the late president, Johnson's widow Lady Bird Johnson "spoke to [Caro] several times and then abruptly stopped without giving a reason, and Bill Moyers, Johnson's press secretary, has never consented to be interviewed, but most of Johnson's closest friends, including John Connally and George Christian, Johnson's last press secretary, who spoke to Caro practically on his deathbed, have gone on the record".[7]
Caro's books have been published by Alfred A. Knopf, first under editor in chief Robert Gottlieb and then by Sonny Mehta, "who took over the Johnson project – enthusiastically – after Gottlieb's departure in 1987." Gottlieb, five years Caro's senior, suggested the Johnson project to Caro in 1974 in preference to the planned follow-up to the Moses volume, a biography of Fiorello LaGuardia that was then abandoned. The ex-President had recently died and Caro had already decided, before meeting with Gottlieb on the subject, to undertake the Texan's biography; he "wanted to write about power".[11] Gottlieb has continued as editor of Caro's books since leaving Knopf and excerpted Volume 2 of the Johnson biography at The New Yorker when he was editor in chief there.[7]
For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award for the Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, and has won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Art and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize.
In October 2007, Caro was named a "Holtzbrinck Distinguished Visitor" at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany but then was unable to attend.
In 2010, he received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama, the highest award in the humanities given in the United States. Delivering remarks at the end of the ceremony, the President said, "I think about Robert Caro and reading The Power Broker back when I was 22 years old and just being mesmerized, and I'm sure it helped to shape how I think about politics."[12] In 2011, Robert Caro was the recipient of the 2011 BIO Award given each year by members of Biographers International "to a colleague who had made a major contribution in the advancement of the art and craft of real life depiction."[13]
- 1964 – The Society of Silurians Award for outstanding achievement in the field of Public Service History for a series entitled "Misery Acres", exposing fraudulent real estate sales by mail
- 1964 — The Deadline Club for outstanding newspaper reporting
- 1965 – The Deadline Club for outstanding newspaper reporting
- 1965–1966 – Nieman W. Lucius Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University Nieman Foundation
- 1975 — Washington Monthly American Political Book Award (The Power Broker)
- 1975 – The Francis Parkman Prize awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best "exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist"[citation needed] (The Power Broker)
- 1975 – The Pulitzer Prize for Biography (The Power Broker)[14]
- 1975 – AIA Special Citation
- 1982 – The National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year (The Path to Power)
- 1983 – The Blue Pencil Award from the Columbia Daily Spectator
- 1983 — American Academy of Arts and Letters Award
- 1983 – The Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters (The Path to Power)
- 1983 – The Mencken Award for the best book of 1982 (The Path to Power)
- 1986 – The Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Art and Letters
- 1990 – The National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year (Means of Ascent)
- 1991 — Washington Monthly American Political Book Award (Means of Ascent)
- 2002 — The Power Broker was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest non-fiction books of the twentieth century.
- 2002 – The National Book Award (Master of the Senate)[15]
- 2003 – The Los Angeles Times Book Award in Non-Fiction (Master of the Senate)
- 2003 – The Carl Sandburg Award in Literature (Master of the Senate)
- 2003 – The John Steinbeck Award in literature (Master of the Senate)
- 2003 – The Pulitzer Prize for Biography (Master of the Senate)[14]
- 2010 – Inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame
- 2010 – The National Humanities Medal
- 2011 – The BIO Award from Biographers International Organization for advancing the art and craft of biography.[16]
- 2012 – National Book Award (Nonfiction), finalist, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson[17]
- 2012 – National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography), finalist, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson[18]
- 2012 – The Los Angeles Times Book Award in Non-Fiction (The Passage of Power)
- 2012 – The New York Historical Society American History Book Prize (The Passage of Power)
- 2012 – The Mark Lynton History Prize (The Passage of Power)
- 2012 – Norman Mailer Prize, Biography.[19]
Caro has described his wife, Ina Caro, as "the whole team" on all five of his books. She sold their house and took a job teaching school to fund work on The Power Broker and is the only person other than himself who conducted research for his books.[20]
Ina is the author of The Road from the Past: Traveling through History in France (1996),[21] a book which Arthur Schlesinger Jr. called, at the presentation of her honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from The City University of New York in 2011, "the essential traveling companion… for all who love France and its history."[22] Newsweek reviewer Peter Prescott commented, "I'd rather go to France with Ina Caro than with Henry Adams or Henry James. The unique premise of her intelligent and discerning book is so startling that it's a wonder no one has thought of it before."[23] Ina frequently writes about their travels through France in her Paris to the Past blog. In June 2011, W. W. Norton published her second book, Paris to the Past: Traveling through French History by Train (2011).[24]
The Caros have a son, Chase, a disbarred lawyer, and three grandchildren. Chase Caro was sentenced to 2.5 to 7.5 years in prison by County Court Judge Susan Cacace after pleading guilty to grand larceny.[25][relevant? ] Caro has a younger sibling, Michael, who is now a retired real estate manager.[7]
Pop culture references[edit]
In film[edit]
In The Stepford Wives (2004), Nicole Kidman's character attends a book club meeting with the Stepford wives and attempts to discuss the third volume of Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson, but the group chooses to review a book of Christmas crafts.
In television[edit]
In the last episode of season one of the U.S. TV series House of Cards, a copy of The Passage of Power can be seen lying on the desk of protagonist Frank Underwood (played by Kevin Spacey).
In the television series The Simpsons, the episode "Treehouse of Horror XVI" features the character Lisa seen reading Master of the Senate in the vignette "Bart A.I." Caro later guest-starred on the episode "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing".
- Caro, Robert A., The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. 1974. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York. (ISBN 0394480767). ix + 1246 pp. + xxxiv pp.: illus.
- Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power. 1982. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York. (ISBN 0394499735). xxiii + 882 p. + 48 p. of plates: illus.
- Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent. 1990. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York. (ISBN 0394528352). xxxiv + 506 pp.
- Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate. 2002. Alfred A. Knopf Inc, New York. (ISBN 0-394-52836-0). xxiv + 1167 pp.
- Caro, Robert A., The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power. 2012. Alfred A. Knopf Inc, New York. (ISBN 978-0-679-40507-8). 752 pp.
- Zinsser, William Knowlton (ed.), Extraordinary Lives: The Art and Craft of American Biography, Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0-395-48617-3


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