Background
Richard Pollak was born on April 5, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is a son of Robert and Janet Pollak.
Amherst, MA 01002, United States
Amherst College where Richard Pollak received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
(Pollak shows that the South African press played an impor...)
Pollak shows that the South African press played an important part in revealing the Muldergate scandal, a saga of national and international intrigue, corruption, and violence that included an attempt by South Africa to purchase the Washington Star to extend its credibility around the world.
https://www.amazon.com/Up-Against-Apartheid-Science-International/dp/0809310139/?tag=2022091-20
1981
(The Episode is a novel of epilepsy and suspense. Only yes...)
The Episode is a novel of epilepsy and suspense. Only yesterday, reporter Daniel Cooper was a free man-free to ignore the limits of conventional journalism, free from the seizures that anticonvulsant drugs had suppressed for more than two decades. But now a violent epileptic attack has stolen more than 24 hours from his memory and there is a dead man on his doorstep, a mysterious .45 in his apartment, and two detectives on his back. Could he possibly have committed murder in a fit of epileptic rage? Against a background of poisonous duplicity, Daniel relentlessly tries to recapture the lost hours and get to the bottom of what he believes to be a major criminal conspiracy involving drugs and the rampant greed of a New York City real estate baron.
https://www.amazon.com/Episode-Richard-Pollak-ebook/dp/B00O26G02A/?tag=2022091-20
1986
(The Creation of Dr. B, Richard Pollak's riveting biograph...)
The Creation of Dr. B, Richard Pollak's riveting biography of Bruno Bettelheim, reveals the world-renowned child psychologist as a dogmatic tyrant and compulsive liar who often terrorized his young patients and their parents, plagiarized his prize-winning work, made false claims about his concentration camp experiences, and grandly invented his own past.
https://www.amazon.com/Creation-Dr-Biography-Bruno-Bettelheim-ebook/dp/B00M4KJ0B4/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(Throughout his riveting narrative, Pollak interweaves the...)
Throughout his riveting narrative, Pollak interweaves the insights of Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad, whose masterful portrayals of seafaring make the voyage of the Colombo Bay a dramatic reminder of what a hard and rarely reported life merchant seamen have always led out on the "unhooped oceans of this planet."
https://www.amazon.com/Colombo-Bay-Richard-Pollak-ebook/dp/B00AK9IPOE/?tag=2022091-20
1999
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Tell him you'll punish him if he doesn't stop hiding! Those were the words Richard Pollak shouted down to his parents as he played hide-and-seek with his 11-year-old brother in the loft of a barn. Moments later Stephen slipped through a hole camouflaged by hay and fell to his death. To this day, Pollak remembers virtually nothing of that hot summer afternoon, as he recounts in his riveting new book. Pollak shines a powerful light on himself and his family in a memoir that is by turns investigative and introspective, a remarkably candid and probing reflection on the life-long impact of his brother's death, his own struggle with epilepsy (the falling sickness), and the elusiveness of memory.
https://www.amazon.com/After-Brothers-Memoir-Richard-Pollak/dp/1619273314/?tag=2022091-20
2013
Richard Pollak was born on April 5, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is a son of Robert and Janet Pollak.
Richard Pollak studied at Amherst College where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1957.
Richard Pollak started his career as a staff writer for Armed Forces Press Service in 1957. In 1959 he started to work as a political reporter at The Baltimore Sun. In 1964, Pollak took up a post of an associate editor at Newsweek and held this post until 1967. He held the same post at Honolulu Star-Bulletin from 1967 to 1968. Pollak served as a Literary editor at The Nation from 1980 to 1981 and as an executive editor at the same magazine from 1988 to 1989. He created and taught a course in "The Politics of Journalism," which he also taught for several years at New York University.
Richard Pollak published his first book Up Against Apartheid: The Role and the Plight of the Press in South Africa in 1981. Later he wrote such books as The Episode, The Creation of Dr. B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim and The Colombo Bay. His latest book After The Barn: A Brother's Memoir was published in 2013. He also was a contributor of articles to periodicals, including Atlantic, Harper’s, New England Monthly, and European Travel & Life.
(Throughout his riveting narrative, Pollak interweaves the...)
1999(Pollak shows that the South African press played an impor...)
1981(Tell him you'll punish him if he doesn't stop hiding! Tho...)
2013(The Episode is a novel of epilepsy and suspense. Only yes...)
1986(The Creation of Dr. B, Richard Pollak's riveting biograph...)
1997Richard Pollak married Diane Walsh in 1982.