Richard Bradley (writer)

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Richard Bradley (born Richard Blow; 1964) is an American writer and journalist. [1]

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Life and career

Bradley graduated from Yale University in 1986, and began working at The New Republic in Washington, D.C., followed by Regardie's magazine. He then earned a master's degree in American history from Harvard University. Bradley returned to Regardie's in 1992 as editor-in-chief and became one of the original editors of George magazine in 1995. He was the executive editor of "George" at the time of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s death in a plane crash on July 16, 1999.

His first book, American Son, about John F. Kennedy Jr. and George magazine, was a nonfiction bestseller, reaching #1 on the nonfiction New York Times Bestseller List. GQ magazine remarked that the book "oozed necrophilia"; David Carr wrote in The New York Times that “'Richard Blow' became a synonym for New York publishing ambition, the very portrait of a man who saw his chance and took it. Some critics claimed that Mr. Bradley fired two George writers, Lisa DePaulo and Douglas Brinkley, for speaking to the press about their infinitely famous boss after Mr. Kennedy's death in 1999 and then turned around to write his own account.” [2] Blow responded that while he had requested staff members not to speak to the press, it was at the apparent request of John's sister, Caroline Kennedy, and that no one had been fired from George for speaking to the press. "With the appropriate passage of time many former George staffers have spoken to the media and written about our former boss," Blow wrote. [3]

He changed his surname from Blow to Bradley (his mother's maiden name) prior to releasing his second book in 2005, Harvard Rules, about Harvard president Lawrence Summers. [4] The book, according to Publishers Weekly, "offers an insightful look at how the role of the American university president has changed from a moral and intellectual leader independent of political and corporate power to the administrator of an institution largely dependent on corporate and government largesse for its continued existence." [5] His 2008 book The Greatest Game is about the one-game playoff between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox on October 2, 1978. [6] [7]

In 2008, Bradley was named editor-in-chief for the 2009 re-launch of Worth magazine , [8] a position he held until 2019.

In November 2014, recalling his prior involvement with noted fabricator Stephen Glass while at George, Bradley was one of the first serious journalists to question the gang-rape story related in the December 2014 Rolling Stone article "A Rape on Campus." [9] [10]

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References

  1. ↑ David Carr (February 17, 2005). "Amid the Firestorm, a Portrait of Harvard". The New York Times . Retrieved January 12, 2015. Even his name, Richard Bradley, seems perfectly chosen, as it was. Mr. Bradley was born Richard Blow in 1964. But before publishing "Harvard Rules," he decided to adopt his mother's maiden name. In doing so, he may lose some of the baggage his birth name carried, particularly after he disavowed a confidentiality agreement to write a hagiographic book about Mr. Kennedy, for whom he had worked at George magazine.
  2. ↑ Carr, David (17 February 2005). "Amid the Firestorm, a Portrait of Harvard". The New York Times.
  3. ↑ "Writing on John F. Kennedy Jr". The New York Times. 10 November 2002.
  4. ↑ Carr, David (17 February 2005). Amid the Firestorm, a Portrait of Harvard, The New York Times
  5. ↑ Bradley, Richard (March 2005). Harvard Rules: The Struggle for the Soul of the World's Most Powerful University. ISBN   0060568542.
  6. ↑ Nowlin, Bill. The game that put a Dent in Sox fans' dreams, Boston Globe
  7. ↑ Reider, Abigail (25 February 2005). Bradley ’86 predicted Summers maelstrom, Yale Daily News
  8. ↑ Miley, Marissa (15 April 2009). Worth Relaunches as Even More Exclusive Title for Ultra-Rich, Ad Age
  9. ↑ McCoy, Terrence (8 December 2014). The initial response to Bradley's post on his personal blog, "Is the Rolling Stone Story True?," was an angry backlash; writing on the website Jezebel, Anna Merlan called him an "idiot" who "didn't know what he was talking about." When the Rolling Stone story was subsequently shown to be false, Merlan admitted that she had been "dead fucking wrong." The epic Rolling Stone gang-rape fallout — and how major publications get it wrong, The Washington Post
  10. ↑ Bradley, Richard (24 November 2014). Is the Rolling Stone Story True?, RichardBradley.net
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