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Richard Reeves, the author of President Nixon: Alone in the White
House (October 2001), is an author and syndicated columnist who
has made a number of award-winning documentary films. His ninth
book, President Kennedy: Profile of Power, won several national
awards and was named the Best Book of 1993 by Time magazine.
Reeves' other best-selling books include Convention and American Journey:
Traveling with Tocqueville in Search of Democracy in America. His
twice-weekly column has appeared since 1979 in more than 100 newspapers
including the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun and Dallas
Morning News. He is a former chief political correspondent of The
New York Times and has written extensively in numerous magazines including
The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire
and New York. His column "American and Paris" appeared
for six years in Travel and Leisure.
He is a visiting professor at the Annenberg School for Communication
at the University of Southern California and the former Regents Professor
of Political Science at UCLA. He has also taught political writing at
the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 1998, he won
the Carey McWilliams Award of the American Political Science Association
for distinguished contributions to the understanding of American politics.
He was the Goldman Lecturer on American Civilization and Government at
the Library of Congress that year; the lectures were published by Harvard
University Press under the title What the People Know: Freedom and
the Press. He is the co-editor of the textbook Do the Media Govern?
published by Sage.
Reeves has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist and juror and has won a number
of print journalism awards. In 1998, he received a Lifetime Achievement
Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
He has made six television films and won all of television's major documentary
awards: the Emmy for "Lights, Camera...Politics!" for ABC News; the Columbia-DuPont
Award for "Struggle for Birmingham" for PBS; and the George Foster Peabody
Award for "Red Star over Khyber" for PBS.
Reeves' other books include: Family Travels: Around the World in Thirty
Days (1997); Running in Place: How Bill Clinton Disappointed America
(1996); The Reagan Detour (1985); Passage to Peshawar (1983);
Jet Lag (1981); and A Ford, Not a Lincoln (1975).
He is married to Catherine O'Neill, founder of the Women's Commission
for Refugee Women and Children and director of the United Nations
office in Washington. They have five children.
Richard Reeves speaks on the press; the presidency, specifically
Kennedy and Nixon; Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America
; and on foreign affairs.
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