Adam Clymer (1937–2018)
Autor(a) de Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography
About the Author
Adam Clymer was born in New York City on April 27, 1937. While at Harvard University he was the president of the student newspaper The Crimson and covered college games as a part-time correspondent for The New York Times. He graduated in 1958. After returning from a fellowship at the University of mostrar mais Cape Town, he covered police news for The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Virginia and served in the Army. He was hired by The Baltimore Sun in 1963. After a brief stint at The Daily News in New York, he joined The New York Times in 1977 and worked there until his retirement in 2003. He covered Congress, eight presidential campaigns, and the downfall of both Nikita S. Khrushchev and Richard M. Nixon. Clymer received the National Press Foundation's Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for distinguished congressional reporting in 1993 and the American Political Science Association's Carey McWilliams Award for political reporting in 2003. After his retirement, he was political director of the National Annenberg Election Survey and taught journalism at George Washington University. He wrote several books Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography, Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right, and the novel Escape From 9/11. He died from pancreatic cancer on September 10, 2018 at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por Adam Clymer
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1937-04-27
- Data de falecimento
- 2018-09-10
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Educação
- Walden School
Harvard University - Ocupações
- journalist
biographer
novelist - Relações
- Clymer, Eleanor (mother)
- Organizações
- The New York Times
The Baltimore Sun
Membros
Críticas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Membros
- 78
- Popularidade
- #229,022
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 7
Such a judgment certainly reflects Clymer's bias for his subject. But he does make a convincing case for the influential role that Kennedy has played in the Senate over the past three decades. Clymer conveys Kennedy's love for the Senate, which he argues was reflected in his half-hearted attempts for the White House in the 1970s and 1980s. While some may argue that his failure to win the nomination makes any effort to minimize his presidential campaigns a case of sour grapes, Clymer demonstrates how Kennedy thrived in the Senate in a way his brothers - who seemed to treat their careers there as little more than platforms from which to launch their bids for the White House - never did.
Yet Clymer's biography is not without its flaws. As some reviewers have noted, the book occasionally bogs down in the minutiae of legislative maneuvering, the deals and rules that play such an important role of Kennedy's career (and his mastery of which is one of the keys to his influence). Even more troubling, though, is Clymer's inability to reconcile successfully the powerful senator with the dissolute personal character. He acknowledges Kennedy's personal problems but refers to most of them in passing only, which has the effect of reducing Chappaquiddick to an isolated incident rather than the most tragic example of the personal conduct which has defined the man in the minds of many Americans.
In spite of this, Clymer's book stands as an excellent biography of Edward Kennedy. Detailed, insightful, and well-argued, it will remain for some time the best book about the Kennedy brother who might turn out to have been the most important and influential one of them all.… (mais)