Jack Beatty

Jack J. Beatty (born May 15, 1945) ^[1] is an American writer, senior editor of The Atlantic , ^[2] and news analyst for On Point , the national NPR news program.

Early life

Beatty was born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. ^[2]

He attended Boston Latin School, Boston State College, and the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire. ^{[1] [3]}

Career

Beatty joined The Atlantic Monthly in 1983 as a senior editor. He previously worked as a book reviewer for Newsweek and as the literary editor of The New Republic . ^[2]

In addition to editing many of The Atlantic's major nonfiction pieces, Beatty was also in charge of the book-review section. ^[2] Beatty also wrote for the magazine himself, including on travel. ^[2]

Beatty's 1992 biography of James Michael Curley was nominated for a National Book Critics' Circle award. ^[2] His book Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America was commissioned by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. ^[4]

Awards

• 1990: Guggenheim Fellowship ^[5]
• 1993: American Book Award
• 1993: L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)
• Poynter Fellow at Yale University
• Two Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research grants
• William Allen White Award for Criticism
• Olive Branch Award for an Atlantic article on arms control

Bibliography

• Beatty, Jack (1992). The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley. ISBN   0201175991.
  • — (2000). The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958 (Paperback ed.). New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN   9780306810022.
• — (August 1996). "A Race Too Far?". Politics. The Atlantic Monthly. 278 (2): 21–25. ^[6]
• Jack Beatty, ed. (2001). Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America . Broadway Books. ISBN   978-0-7679-0352-3.
• "A Miserable Failure", The Atlantic, September 24, 2003
• Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865–1900. Random House. 2008. ISBN   978-1-4000-3242-6.
• Jack Beatty, ed. (2004). Pols: Great Writers on American Politicians from Bryan to Reagan . PublicAffairs. ISBN   978-1-58648-015-8.
• Beatty, Jack (1998). The World According to Peter Drucker . The Free Press. ISBN   978-0-684-83801-4.
• The Lost History of 1914: How the Great War Was Not Inevitable. London; Berlin [u.a.]: Bloomsbury, 2012. ISBN   978-1-408-82796-3.

References

1. "Beatty, Jack 1945–". Encyclopedia.com. 2009. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
2. "Beatty Biography". The Atlantic .
3. University of Massachusetts Boston Commencement 1994 (PDF), University of Massachusetts Boston, 1994, p. 2, archived from the original (PDF) on January 5, 2011
4. "'Colossus' makes literary sense of U.S. corporations". www.usatoday.com. Archived from the original on February 15, 2002. Retrieved November 15, 2025.
5. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Jack J. Beatty". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
6. William Weld runs against John Kerry in 1996 U.S. Senate election.

External links

• "Interview with Jack Beatty", Claremont college
• Hillkirk, Scott (May 29, 2001). "'Colossus' makes literary sense of U.S. corporations". USA TODAY. Archived from the original on February 15, 2002.