Richard Rovere
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Richard Halworth Rovere (May 5, 1915 – November 23, 1979) was an American political journalist.[1]
Biography
Rovere was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He graduated from the Stony Brook School in 1933 and Bard College, then a branch of Columbia University, in 1937. During the Great Depression, he was attracted to Communism, may or may not have joined the Party, and wrote for the New Masses.[2] In 1939, as a result of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, he broke with Stalinism and became an anticommunist liberal.
In the early 1940s, he was an assistant editor at The Nation. He joined The New Yorker in 1944 and wrote its "Letter from Washington" column from December 1948 until his death. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, he periodically contributed to Esquire, Harper's, and The American Scholar; now and then he reported on American matters for Britain's Spectator. His reporting got him on the master list of Nixon political opponents.
Rovere wrote an introduction to Edward Jay Epstein's book Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth (1966), which was critical of the Warren Commission.[3]
He died of emphysema in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Blurbs
From the Rhinebeck Gazette (Rhinebeck, New York), June 18, 1959:
The Gazette received an advanced copy of Richard H. Rovere's book, "Senator Joe McCarthy," from Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. The book is both an analytical biography and a memoir, as well as a commentary on the American political scene. Mr Rovere, who was often an eyewitness observer of the events he describes, lives at 108 Montgomery Street in Rhinebeck.
Legacy
His papers from 1931 to 1968 are housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives.
Bibliography
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Books
- Howe & Hummel: Their True and Scandalous History (1947). Paperback reprint: The Weeper and the Blackmailer (1950)
- The General and the President (with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 1951)
- Affairs of State: The Eisenhower Years (1956)
- Senator Joe McCarthy (1959)
- The American Establishment and Other Reports, Opinions, and Speculations (1962)
- The Goldwater Caper (1965)
- Waist Deep in the Big Muddy: Personal Reflections on 1968 (1968)
- Arrivals and Departures: A Journalist's Memoirs (1976)
- Final Reports: Personal Reflections on Politics and History in Our Time (1984, published posthumously, foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
Essays and reporting
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rovere, Richard H. (February 4, 1950). "Wallace". The New Yorker. 25 (50): 27–32.[a]
- Introduction to Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Epstein, Edward Jay (1966). Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth. New York: Viking Press. OCLC 391774.
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- Notes
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- ^ Reminiscences of school days.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."R. H. Rovere, magazine columnist, author, dies. Political Affairs Columnist Was 64". Chicago Tribune. November 23, 1979. Archived from the original on November 3, 2012. Retrieved 2010-09-13.
Richard H. Rovere, 64, who wrote commentaries on American politics as a columnist for The New Yorker magazine, died Friday of emphysema in Vassar Brothers ...
- ^ Mark Weisenmiller, “He Was the Predominant Magazine Political Journalist of the 20th Century,” History News Network [website] , March 15, 2015
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Roberts, Sam (11 January 2024). "Edward Jay Epstein, Author and Stubborn Skeptic, Dies at 88". The New York Times.
Further reading
- Allen, Frederick Lewis (April 1944). Personal & Otherwise: Honorable Mixed Fry. Harper's, pgs. 488–490.
- Logan, Andy. (December 10, 1979). Obituary: Richard Rovere. The New Yorker, pgs. 218–219.
External links
- The American Establishment and Other Reports, Opinions, and Speculations from Archive.org
- The Goldwater Caper from Archive.org
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