(Four Days of Mayaguez is a compelling story of bold confr...)
Four Days of Mayaguez is a compelling story of bold confrontation and heightening drama, of the courage and heroism of the captured crew and the Marines during the four tension-filled days of the Mayaguez Incident. The four days―Monday through Thursday―of the divisions of this book were, because of the international dateline, Sunday through Wednesday in Washington. One of the most controversial and dramatic incidents in the post-Vietnam period was the retaking of the American cargo ship Mayaguez after it was seized by the revolutionary government forces of Cambodia. The whole truth of what happened during the capture, the attack, the recovery―as well as why President Ford made the decision he did, and the human stories of the crew members themselves. Roy Rowan details the diplomatic effort to obtain the release and tells why the Marines, the Air Force, and the Navy were ordered to attack.
A Day in the Life of Italy: Photographed by 100 of the World's Leading Photojournalists on One Day, April 27, 1990 (Day in the Life Photography Series)
(Photographs taken throughout Italy show children, nurses,...)
Photographs taken throughout Italy show children, nurses, performers, fashion models, clergy, police, soldiers, farmers, and fishermen.
Never Too Late: A 90-Year-Old's Pursuit Of A Whirlwind Life
(Never Too Late is career correspondent and author Roy Row...)
Never Too Late is career correspondent and author Roy Rowan’s rousing testament to the fact that if you are still in reasonably good health and have a career or set of interests to pursue, your swan-song years can be among your most productive. He shares his views of the pleasures and potentials of old age based on a long life of adventure—from his decades covering wars and revolutions across the globe to the jogging that took him through his eighties and the fishing that fills so many of his days as a nonagenarian. Throughout he weaves in the lessons he has learned along the way and addresses a spectrum of topics, including the subjectivity of the label “old,” the importance of optimism, and the fight to maintain independence as the years go by. He also encourages retirees to start a second career or activity, naming the three E’s of Enthusiasm, Exertion, and Energy as the keys to pursuing a new passion. Never Too Late is one man’s stirring reminder that the philosopher Satchel Paige had it right when he asked, “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” Never Too Late is career correspondent and author Roy Rowan’s rousing testament to the fact that if you are still in reasonably good health and have a career or set of interests to pursue, your swan-song years can be among your most productive. He shares his views of the pleasures and potentials of old age based on a long life of adventure—from his decades covering wars and revolutions across the globe to the jogging that took him through his eighties and the fishing that fills so many of his days as a nonagenarian. Throughout he weaves in the lessons he has learned along the way and addresses a spectrum of topics, including the subjectivity of the label “old,” the importance of optimism, and the fight to maintain independence as the years go by. He also encourages retirees to start a second career or activity, naming the three E’s of Enthusiasm, Exertion, and Energy as the keys to pursuing a new passion. Never Too Late is one man’s stirring reminder that the philosopher Satchel Paige had it right when he asked, “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” Never Too Late is career correspondent and author Roy Rowan’s rousing testament to the fact that if you are still in reasonably good health and have a career or set of interests to pursue, your swan-song years can be among your most productive. He shares his views of the pleasures and potentials of old age based on a long life of adventure—from his decades covering wars and revolutions across the globe to the jogging that took him through his eighties and the fishing that fills so many of his days as a nonagenarian. Throughout he weaves in the lessons he has learned along the way and addresses a spectrum of topics, including the subjectivity of the label “old,” the importance of optimism, and the fight to maintain independence as the years go by. He also encourages retirees to start a second career or activity, naming the three E’s of Enthusiasm, Exertion, and Energy as the keys to pursuing a new passion. Never Too Late is one man’s stirring reminder that the philosopher Satchel Paige had it right when he asked, “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”
Powerful People: From Mao to Now, a Reporter's Fifty-Year Pursuit of
(A distinguished journalist shares incisive profiles of so...)
A distinguished journalist shares incisive profiles of some of the individuals who helped shape the history of the twentieth century, from Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek to Ross Perot and including Jimmy Hoffa, Douglas MacArthur, Marshal Tito, and many others. Tour.
First Dogs: American Presidents and Their Best Friends
("If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog," Harry Tr...)
"If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog," Harry Truman once said. Perhaps that's why, for much of our Republic's history, there have been two top dogs at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue―one with two legs, one with four. First Dogs, by distinguished journalist Roy Rowan and researcher Brooke Janis, tells the whole doggone story, from the days before there was a White House to Barack Obama’s newly adopted presidential pup, Bo. Here's a lighthearted romp through American history, packed with drawings and paintings from early America, plus photographs, starting with Abraham Lincoln's Fido. Not only did these four-footed goodwill ambassadors humanize their distinguished masters, they offered them a little unconditional love in a loveless town. First Dogs gives dog lovers and history lovers a new angle on presidential history and is more fun than you can shake a stick (or rubber bone) at. "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog," Harry Truman once said. Perhaps that's why, for much of our Republic's history, there have been two top dogs at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue―one with two legs, one with four. First Dogs, by distinguished journalist Roy Rowan and researcher Brooke Janis, tells the whole doggone story, from the days before there was a White House to Barack Obama’s newly adopted presidential pup, Bo. Here's a lighthearted romp through American history, packed with drawings and paintings from early America, plus photographs, starting with Abraham Lincoln's Fido. Not only did these four-footed goodwill ambassadors humanize their distinguished masters, they offered them a little unconditional love in a loveless town. First Dogs gives dog lovers and history lovers a new angle on presidential history and is more fun than you can shake a stick (or rubber bone) at.
Roy Rowan was an American former foreign correspondent, writer and editor for LIFE, TIME and Fortune magazines.
Background
Roy Rowan was born on February 1, 1920, in New York, United States. He was the son of Leon and Clarice Rowan.
Rowan was raised in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. At the age of 12, he began writing, editing, and publishing a four-page, mimeographed neighbourhood newspaper, a venture that sparked an ambition to become a journalist.
Education
Rowan graduated from Dartmouth College in 1941 and received his Master of Business Administration degree from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business in April 1942.
In 1995 Rowan received an honorary doctorate from Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York.
During the World War II, Rowan served in the U.S. Army. One of this first duties was to escort Italian Prisoners of War back from North Africa on an Army Liberty ship. He later spent two years serving in New Guinea and the Philippines, before mustering out of the service as a major in February, 1946.
In 1946, unable to secure a job as a foreign correspondent, Rowan joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) during the Chinese Civil War between Mao Zedong's Communists and Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. There he also began photographing and writing freelance articles about the conflict, sending his pictures and articles back to major magazines in the United States in the hope of establishing himself as a journalist. Frustrated by the lack of response, he decided to return to the U.S. Shortly before leaving Shanghai in December 1947, the Time-Life bureau chief approached him and informed him that Life magazine had printed several of his photographs and asked if Rowan could write an article on the war in Henan Province. The next month, Life hired him as their China and Southeast Asia correspondent. Rowan then covered all the major battles of China's Civil War leading up to the fall of Shanghai in May 1949. Following the Communist takeover, Rowan served as Life bureau chief in Hong Kong, Rome, Tokyo (mainly as a war correspondent in Korea), Bonn (covering the Cold War in Europe), and Chicago. During that last assignment, he traveled around the country for a month with Jimmy Hoffa, the notorious Teamster boss, for an exclusive three-part series on the all-powerful, but corrupt labor union.
In 1961 Rowan was transferred to New York City and appointed Life’s assistant managing editor in charge of the magazine’s worldwide news coverage. When JFK was assassinated in 1963, he was having lunch with the company’s editor-in-chief, Henry Luce, who ordered him to fly out to the printing plant in Chicago to stop the presses and remake the magazine, using the now-famous Zapruder film that pictured the actual shooting of the president.
In 1969, Rowan began working with Time Inc. on his proposal for a new waterfront magazine. When Time's financial backing of the magazine fell through, Rowan left Time Inc., and joined by nine other investors to found Seascape Publications in 1970 - Rowan serving as both President of the newly-formed company and Editor of On The Sound Magazine. In November 1972, Universal Publishing acquired On The Sound, and Rowan returned to Time as its bureau chief in Hong Kong - covering China, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Rowan was evacuated from Saigon on one of the last helicopters in April 1975. He then wrote his first book, The Four Days of Mayaguez, in 1975.
In 1977, Rowan left Time and became a senior writer for Fortune Magazine. Between then and his retirement in 1985, he wrote more than 65 major articles for the magazine, including an exclusive 15-page report on the “Top 50 Mafia Bosses in America.” He "retired" in 1985 but continued to write two or three Fortune articles a year, as well as his second book, The Intuitive Manager in 1986. A Day in the Life of Italy, a project Rowan co-edited, was released in 1990. In the book, 100 photographers shooting at different locations around Italy, recorded in detail what happened over a 24-hour period on April 27, 1990. In January of that same year, Rowan spent two freezing weeks on the streets of New York City living as a homeless man for a 10-page eyewitness report in People. His bylined articles, besides those in Time, Life, and Fortune, have appeared in Smithsonian, the Atlantic Monthly (a 6,000-word report on his own battle with cancer), Reader’s Digest, and the New Republic.
His third book, Powerful People, was published in 1996, followed closely by First Dogs: American Presidents and Their Best Friends in 1997. It was made into a one-hour documentary and aired on the Discovery Channel. Rowan wrote the narration for actor Kelsey Grammar. A year later, his fifth book, Surfcaster's Quest, a return to Rowan's passions - the waterfront and fishing - was published. In 2003, Rowan published his first work of fiction, Solomon Starbucks Striper: A Fish Story About Following Your Dreams. His seventh book, Chasing the Dragon: A Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1946-1949 Chinese Revolution, was published in 2004 and has been optioned in Hollywood for a feature film. His eighth book, Throwing Bullets: A Tale of Two Pitchers Chasing the Dream was published in 2006. His last ninth book, Never Too Late: A 90-Year-Old's Pursuit of a Whirlwind Life, was published in 2012.
His last days, Rowan spent in Greenwich, Connecticut and Block Island, Rhode Island.
("If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog," Harry Tr...)
1997
Membership
Roy Rowan was a past president of the Overseas Press Club of America, the Time-Life Alumni Society and the Dutch Treat Club. He was also an active member of the Century Association in New York City and The Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong.
Interests
Fishing, tennis
Connections
Rowan married Helen Rounds on May 19, 1952. The couple had 4 children: Dana, Douglas, Nicholas and Marcus.