Background
Daniel Akst was born on May 25, 1956 in New York City, New York, United States.
Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
Daniel Akst received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978.
Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
Daniel Akst received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978.
(This is the story of Barry Minkow, teenage whiz-kid and s...)
This is the story of Barry Minkow, teenage whiz-kid and swindler extraordinaire. His rise and fall symbolized his times - the go-go, business-friendly Eighties - and even made 60 Minutes. Daniel Akst was there for the whole ride, profiling Minkow in the Los Angeles Times as a young entrepreneur and then prying the lid off his scam at the most inopportune moment.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YKYFLC/?tag=2022091-20
1990
(Alternately dark and uproarious, St. Burl's Obituary is t...)
Alternately dark and uproarious, St. Burl's Obituary is the story of a well-padded New York journalist writer confronts his own mortality, loses a lot of weight, and becomes unrecognizably thin. Never has an allegory been more fun.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YKU09S/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(A modern-day witch hunt ensnares the spiritual descendant...)
A modern-day witch hunt ensnares the spiritual descendants of Cotton and Increase Mather.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YEZ5P8/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(At a time when the fallout from reckless spending and unr...)
At a time when the fallout from reckless spending and unrestrained consumption is fueling a national malaise, Daniel Akst delivers a witty and comprehensive investigation of the central problem of our time: how to save ourselves from what we want. Temptation reminds us that while more calories, sex, and intoxicants are readily available than ever before, crucial social constraints have eroded, creating a world that sorely tests the limits of human willpower. Referencing history, literature, psychology, philosophy, and economics, Akst draws a vivid picture of the many-sided problem of desire-and delivers a blueprint for how we can steer shrewdly away from a campaign of self-destruction.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GSZI9E/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(We Have Met the Enemy examines overeating, overspending, ...)
We Have Met the Enemy examines overeating, overspending, procrastination, wayward sexual attraction, and other everyday transgressions that bedevil modern society.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594202818/?tag=2022091-20
2011
Daniel Akst was born on May 25, 1956 in New York City, New York, United States.
Daniel Akst received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. He also completed graduate studies at New York University.
Daniel Akst worked odd jobs during high school and college, including doorman and pleating factory employee.
Akst has worked as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal from 1987 to 1988, where he now writes the weekend news quiz; as a reporter, columnist and editor at the Los Angeles Times since 1985; and as a columnist and editorial writer at Newsday.
For more than eight years, he wrote a column for the Sunday business section of the New York Times. And for roughly a decade, he was a contributing editor at the Wilson Quarterly, where he wrote about the historical impact of plummeting food prices, the reasons looks matter, our changing attitudes about thrift, and the problem of self-control.
In addition, Akst has also been a consultant for companies, including Microsoft. He has been a Koret Fellow at the University of California (Berkeley) Graduate School of Journalism, a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, District of Columbia, and a public policy fellow at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.
Daniel Akst's book "Wonder Boy" was named one of the 10 best books of 1990 by Business Week. His novel "St. Burl’s Obituary" (1996) was short-listed for the PEN/Faulkner Prize for the best work of fiction by an American in 1997. That book was also Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist in 1997.
Akst's other novel "The Webster Chronicle" was praised in the Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post and elsewhere.
(At a time when the fallout from reckless spending and unr...)
2011(We Have Met the Enemy examines overeating, overspending, ...)
2011(A modern-day witch hunt ensnares the spiritual descendant...)
2001(This is the story of Barry Minkow, teenage whiz-kid and s...)
1990(Alternately dark and uproarious, St. Burl's Obituary is t...)
1996Akst was a board member of the National Book Critics Circle.
Daniel Akst has spent 13 years in Los Angeles before moving to the Hudson Valley, where he lives with his wife, Louise G. Dewhirst, and two sons, Nicholas and David.
