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Janeway, Michael Charles was born on May 31, 1940 in New York City. Son of Eliot and Elizabeth Ames (Hall) Janeway.
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In the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the modern Democratic Party into a progressive coalition whose command over power and ideas during the next three decades seemed politically invincible. This is the first book about this group of Rooseveltians and their linkage to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Vietnam War debacle. Michael Janeway grew up inside this world. His father, Eliot Janeway, business editor of Time and a star writer for Fortune and Life magazines, was part of this circle, strategizing and practicing politics as well as reporting on these men. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of events and previously unavailable private letters and other documents, Janeway crafts a riveting account of the exercise of power during the New Deal and its aftermath. He shows how these men were at the nexus of reform impulses at the electoral level with reform thinking in the social sciences and the law and explains how this potent fusion helped build the contemporary American state. Since that time efforts to reinvent government by "brains trust" have largely failed in the U.S. In the last quarter of the twentieth century American politics ceased to function as a blend of broad coalition building and reform agenda setting, rooted in a consensus of belief in the efficacy of modern government. Can a progressive coalition of ideas and power come together again? The Fall of the House of Roosevelt makes such a prospect both alluring and daunting.
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Janeway, Michael Charles was born on May 31, 1940 in New York City. Son of Eliot and Elizabeth Ames (Hall) Janeway.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1962.
Reporter, Newsday, Garden City, New York, 1963; writer, editor, Newsweek, New York City, 1964; associate editor, The New Leader, 1965; editor, The Atlantic, Boston, 1966-1970; managing editor, The Atlantic, 1970-1976; executive editor, The Atlantic, 1976-1977; special assistant to, Secretary State, Washington, 1977-1978; editor, Sunday magazine Boston Globe, 1978-1981; assistant managing editor, Sunday magazine Boston Globe, 1981-1982; managing editor, Sunday magazine Boston Globe, 1982-1985; editor, Sunday magazine Boston Globe, 1985-1986; fellow Institute Politics,, Harvard University, 1986-1987; executive editor trade and reference division, Houghton Mifflin, 1987-1989; professor, dean Medill School Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, since 1989.
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Trustee Station Window To The World-television, since 1991. Served with Army of the United States, 1963-1964. Member American Antiquarian Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Mary Struthers Pinkham, December 18, 1965 (divorced). Children: Samuel Struthers, Mary Warwick. Married Barbara Sudler Maltby, June 25, 1994.