Background
Mitgang, Herbert was born on January 20, 1920 in New York City. Son of Benjamin and Florence (Altman) Mitgang.
(About the books: This striking portrait of Abraham Lincol...)
About the books: This striking portrait of Abraham Lincoln found in this book is drawn entirely from the writing of his contemporaries and extends from his political beginnings in Springfield to his assassination. It reveals a more severely beleaguered, less godlike, and finally a richer Lincoln than has come through many of the biographies of Lincoln written at a distance after his death. To those who are familiar only with the various retouched versions of Lincoln's life, Abraham Lincoln: A Press Portrait will be a welcome-if sometimes surprising-addition to the literature surrounding the man who is perhaps the central figure in all of American history. Of all the journalists who sought access to Abraham Lincoln, Noah Brooks was the favorite of the 16th president. Edward Dicey's report on American life during the Civil War, until now never before published in this country, has long had an underground reputation among historians as a classic in its field and one of the most trenchant books ever written about the United States. Dicey, a young English journalist, crossed the Atlantic for a firsthand view of America in the agony of a war against itself. Dicey brought a wholly fresh perspective and understanding to his study of American life and institutions. He saw the forces of democracy clashing in America, viewing it in all its assorted horrors and glories. Almost alone among contemporary commentators, he recognized Lincoln's greatness before - not after - the assassination. He predicted that one day America and Russia would be locked in a struggle for leadership of the world. More than a century later, his writing on American cities, manners, and morals, along with his special portraits of American literary figures, remain startlingly on-topic. Originally published as a two volume work entitled Six Months in the Federal States, Dicey's remarkable study has now been superbly edited into a single volume by Herbert Mitgang.
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(Legal scripts and newspaper quotes form the backbone of t...)
Legal scripts and newspaper quotes form the backbone of this account of New York City governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's investigation into the corrupt city government of the high-living "Night Mayor" of New York City, Jimmy Walker.
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(One man, and the woman he loves, become caught in a web o...)
One man, and the woman he loves, become caught in a web of international intrigue, love, and betrayal as they attempt to maintain professional integrity amid the struggle for control of the world's information, intelligence, and communications resources.
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(The Man Who Rode the Tiger is the dramatic story of the b...)
The Man Who Rode the Tiger is the dramatic story of the biggest investigation of political corruption in American municipal history.
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(This remarkable text is the result of Mitgang's literary ...)
This remarkable text is the result of Mitgang's literary excursions to interview authors in their own milieu--E.B. White in Maine, Saul Bellow in Chicago, Samuel Beckett in Paris, Vladimir Nabokov in Montreux, Amos Oz in Jerusalem, Dame Rebecca West and Stephen Spender in London, Ralph Ellison in Manhattan, and dozens of others.
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("It is a time close to now. In the United States and in t...)
"It is a time close to now. In the United States and in the Soviet Union, simultaneous secret weapons breakthroughs- in their radically different but in destructive power equally incalculable create the conditions for world war in the truest sense the planet Earth itself becomes the weapon of last resort. One man understand this calculus and the very human, personal equations within it, a man uniquely placed to make the case for survival, and willing to re-enter the harrowing secret world of his past to keep the present world from a far more frightening rendezvous with the future. By a distinguished writer with the New York Times, This Montauk Fault is at once a remarkable, original novel based on inside knowledge from the highest levels of government, and moving, passionate story of one man's old fashioned love for a woman who knew how to value it." This excerpt came from the inside of the dust jacket.
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( Available for the first time in paperback, Civilians un...)
Available for the first time in paperback, Civilians under Arms presents representative samplings of articles, poems, and letters to the editor that appeared in The Stars and Stripes over a span of four wars—the Civil War (with contributors from both the Union and Confederate sides), World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. Herbert Mitgang, who was a correspondent and editor for The Stars and Stripes during World War II, has written a new introduction for this edition. In partial explanation of the title for this book, Mitgang notes that "The Stars and Stripes was not simply an ‘Army’ paper (it did not exist between the two World Wars), but a creation and expression of America’s civilians under arms." The correspondents for the paper wore patches on their left shoulders saying Stars and Stripes, but they displayed no other designation of rank. Mitgang explains this, too: "We did not wear our sergeant’s stripes precisely because we wanted to foster the impression that we were—at least until discovered—as privileged and possibly as talented as the civilian war correspondents (whose pay greatly exceeded ours)." The army newspaper surfaced under many guises over its history. The first Stars and Stripes—a single-issue edition—appeared in Bloomfield, Missouri, on November 9, 1861, the first year of the Civil War. One group of Union prisoners put out a handwritten newspaper, and one paper was printed on the back of wallpaper because nothing else was available. Whatever form it has taken, the army newspaper has always functioned primarily as an organ for enlisted personnel, although it generally has received at least a tacit seal of approval from the top brass—with the exception of General Patton. Mitgang notes a kinship among military correspondents. In the introduction to the book, Mitgang refers to army war correspondents as "comrades-in-arms-and-ink." Their newsbeats offered the promise of glory, certainly, but danger and death occurred in pursuit of stories while under fire. No greater compendium of writings from and about our nation’s wars can be found.
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Mitgang, Herbert was born on January 20, 1920 in New York City. Son of Benjamin and Florence (Altman) Mitgang.
Bachelor of Laws, St. John's Law School, 1942.
Sports stringer, Brooklyn Eagle, 1938-1939;
screen writer, Universal-International Pictures, 1945;
copy editor, reviewer, New York Times, New York City, 1945-1954;
supervising editor, Sunday Times drama section, 1955-1962;
editorial writer, member editorial board, New York Times, 1963-1964, 67-76;
deputy editor Op-Ed page, New York Times, 1970-1976;
publishing, cultural correspondent, book critic, New York Times, 1976-1994;
assistant to president, executive editor, Columbia Broadcasting System News, 1964-1967. Instructor English evening division City College of New York, 1948-1949. Visiting lecturer English, guest fellow Silliman College, Yale University, 1975-1976.
Literature advisor White House Library, 1977-1981.
( Available for the first time in paperback, Civilians un...)
(One man, and the woman he loves, become caught in a web o...)
(About the books: This striking portrait of Abraham Lincol...)
(The Man Who Rode the Tiger is the dramatic story of the b...)
(A biography of the sixteenth President from his early yea...)
(This remarkable text is the result of Mitgang's literary ...)
(Legal scripts and newspaper quotes form the backbone of t...)
( Herbert Mitgang has spent a quarter of a century studyi...)
(Classic document about Lincoln and Civil War.)
("It is a time close to now. In the United States and in t...)
Member executive board Newspaper Guild of New York, Chief Information Officer, 1948-1949. Board directors Theatre for a New Audience, New York, since 1998. Served with counter-intelligence section 5th wing United States Army Air Force, 1942-1943, Mediterranean Theatre of Operations.
Army correspondent, managing editor Stars and Stripes, Oran-Casablanca and Sicily editions 1943-1945. Fellow Society of America Historians. Member Authors League (council since 1962, president fund 1976-1997, president emeritus since 1998), Dramatists Guild (board directors since 1999), Authors Guild (president 1971-1975, trustee, correspondence fund since 1975), International P.E.N. (United States delegate London) Clubs: Century Association (New York City).
Married Shirley Kravchick, May 13, 1945. Children: Esther, Lee, Laura.