Jules Witcover
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Jules Joseph Witcover is an American journalist, author, and columnist.
Witcover is a veteran newspaperman of 50 years' standing, having written for The Baltimore Sun
, the now-defunct Washington Star
, the Los Angeles Times
, and The Washington Post
.http://www.booktv.org/History/index.asp?segID=4152&schedID=249 http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/JulesWitcovereBooks.htm Together with Jack Germond
, Witcover co-wrote "Politics Today," a five-day-a-week syndicated column, for over 24 years.
He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, author and H.L. Mencken scholar Marion Elizabeth Rodgers.
His most recent works are Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Nixon & Agnew, Public Affairs (2007).http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=1586484702 and Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption.
In March 2008, his history of campaign finance reform, "The Longest Campaign," appeared on the Center for Public Integrity
's The Buying of the President 2008 website. http://www.buyingofthepresident.org/index.php/stories/the_longest_campaign/
Witcover assumed the mantle of Theodore H. White
, producing the definitive chronicle of the 1976 presidential campaign, Marathon, and then following with books on every contest from 1980 through 1992 (these four co-authored with Jack W. Germond). In the 1990s and 2000s, he became increasingly preoccupied with the mechanics of national campaigns -- authoring works on the Vice Presidency, political consultants and fundraising -- as well as political history and biography.
Wake Us When It's Over: Presidential Politics of 1984, Macmillan (1985)
Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars? The Trivial Pursuit of the Presidency 1988, Warner Books (1989)
Mad As Hell: Revolt at the Ballot Box 1992, Warner Books (1992)
Witcover is a veteran newspaperman of 50 years' standing, having written for The Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun is the U.S. state of Maryland’s largest general circulation daily newspaper and provides coverage of local and regional news, events, issues, people, and industries....
, the now-defunct Washington Star
Washington Star
The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C. between 1852 and 1981. For most of that time, it was the city's newspaper of record, and the longtime home to columnist Mary McGrory and...
, the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
, and The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
.http://www.booktv.org/History/index.asp?segID=4152&schedID=249 http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/JulesWitcovereBooks.htm Together with Jack Germond
Jack Germond
Jack Worthen Germond is an American journalist, author, and pundit. -Life and career:Germond was born in Boston, Massachusetts, an only child and raised in a striving middle-class household in Boston and Trenton, New Jersey. When he was 13, his family moved to Mississippi, and then to Baton Rouge,...
, Witcover co-wrote "Politics Today," a five-day-a-week syndicated column, for over 24 years.
He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, author and H.L. Mencken scholar Marion Elizabeth Rodgers.
His most recent works are Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Nixon & Agnew, Public Affairs (2007).http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=1586484702 and Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption.
In March 2008, his history of campaign finance reform, "The Longest Campaign," appeared on the Center for Public Integrity
Center for Public Integrity
The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit organization dedicated to producing original, responsible investigative journalism on issues of public concern. The Center is non-partisan and non-advocacy and committed to transparent and comprehensive reporting both in the United States and around...
's The Buying of the President 2008 website. http://www.buyingofthepresident.org/index.php/stories/the_longest_campaign/
Witcover assumed the mantle of Theodore H. White
Theodore H. White
Theodore Harold White was an American political journalist, historian, and novelist, known for his wartime reporting from China and accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1980 presidential elections.-Life and career:...
, producing the definitive chronicle of the 1976 presidential campaign, Marathon, and then following with books on every contest from 1980 through 1992 (these four co-authored with Jack W. Germond). In the 1990s and 2000s, he became increasingly preoccupied with the mechanics of national campaigns -- authoring works on the Vice Presidency, political consultants and fundraising -- as well as political history and biography.
Books written with Germond
Blue Smoke & Mirrors: How Reagan Won and Why Carter Lost the Election of 1980, Viking Press (1981)Wake Us When It's Over: Presidential Politics of 1984, Macmillan (1985)
Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars? The Trivial Pursuit of the Presidency 1988, Warner Books (1989)
Mad As Hell: Revolt at the Ballot Box 1992, Warner Books (1992)
Books written solo
- Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption, William Morrow & Company (2010)
- Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Nixon & Agnew, Public Affairs (2007)
- The Making of an Ink-Stained Wretch: Half a Century Pounding the Political Beat, Johns Hopkins Press (2005)
- Party of the People: A History of the Democrats, Random House (2003)
- No Way to Pick a President: How Money and Hired Guns Have Debased American Elections, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1999)
- The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in America, Warner Books (1997)
- Crapshoot: Rolling the Dice on the Vice Presidency, Crown Publishers (1992)
- Marathon: The Pursuit of the Presidency 1972-1976, Viking Press (1977), an exhaustive and authoritative work.
- 85 Days: The Last Campaign of Robert Kennedy, Putnam (1969) (A 20th-anniversary edition was printed by Quill in 1988 with a new introduction by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and epilogue by the author)