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Donovan attended Lafayette High School in Buffalo, New York, where he was Captain of the Hocke Herald Tribune after the war and served as a foreign correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief.
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During the latter period he was President of the White House Correspondents" Association. Donovan began writing books on the Washington political scene while still a reporter and continued that after retirement. He also served a year as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a year as a Visiting Professor at Princeton University.
He liked to joke that he was the only Professor at Princeton never to have attended a single day of college in his life.
On the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Congress, he addressed a Joint Session of Congress as Truman"s principal biographer. At the time, he was the only active journalist to have ever had that distinction.
His titles include The Assassins (1955), Eisenhower: The Inside Story (1956), PT-109: John F. Kennedy in World World War II (1961), The Future of the Republican Party (1976), Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry South. Truman, 1945-1948 (1977), Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry South. Truman, 1949-1953 (1982), Nemesis: Truman and Johnson in the Coils of War in Asia (1984), The Second Victory: The Marshall Plan and the Postwar Revival of Europe (1987), Confidential Secretary: Ann Whitman"s Twenty Years with Eisenhower and Rockefeller (1988), Unsilent Revolution: Television News and American Public Life, 1948-1991 (1992, with Ray Scherer), and Boxing the Kangaroo: A Reporter"s Memoir (2000).
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Political Party
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