Background
Sam Tanenhaus was born on October 31, 1955, in the United States.
1115 8th Ave, Grinnell, IA 50112, USA
Tanenhaus received his bachelor's degree in English from Grinnell College in 1977.
New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Tanenhaus received a master's degree in English Literature from Yale University in 1978.
620 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY
From April 2004 to April 2013 Tanenhaus held the position of the editor of The New York Times Book Review, and from 2013 to 2014, he was Writer at Large.
1115 8th Ave, Grinnell, IA 50112, USA
Tanenhaus received his bachelor's degree in English from Grinnell College in 1977.
New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Tanenhaus received a master's degree in English Literature from Yale University in 1978.
620 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY
From April 2004 to April 2013 Tanenhaus held the position of the editor of The New York Times Book Review, and from 2013 to 2014, he was Writer at Large.
(This concise primer examines the classics as vibrant crea...)
This concise primer examines the classics as vibrant creations. The auther guides the reader on a tour showing how major works relate to each other and to ourselves. A summary chapter also chronicles Western literature from antiquity to the present.
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1984
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Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad--including still-classified KGB dossiers--Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy Long Island village to center stage in America's greatest political trial and then, in his last years, to a unique role as the godfather of post-war conservatism.
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1997
(The book resides in the examples of pragmatic leaders lik...)
The book resides in the examples of pragmatic leaders like Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan and thinkers like Whittaker Chambers and William F. Buckley, Jr. The Death of Conservatism is a must-read for Americans of any political persuasion.
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2009
biographer editor educator historian journalist author
Sam Tanenhaus was born on October 31, 1955, in the United States.
Tanenhaus received his bachelor's degree in English from Grinnell College in 1977 and a master's degree in English Literature from Yale University in 1978.
Tanenhaus started his career as an assistant editor at The New York Times from 1997 to 1999 and then continued as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair from 1999 until 2004.
From April 2004 to April 2013 he held the position of the editor of The New York Times Book Review, and from 2013 to 2014, he was Writer at Large.
During his career, Tanenhaus was also a Riggio Lecturer at The New School for Social Research and has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and New York University, as well as at the White House and at the Clinton, Kennedy, and Johnson Presidential libraries, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and the Sun Valley Writers Conference.
Currently, Tanenhaus is a freelance writer and journalist who works and lives in Essex, Connecticut.
Sam Tanenhaus is best known as the author of such works as Literature Unbound, Louis Armstrong (Black Americans of Achievement), Old Greenwich Village: An Architectural Portrait, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography and The Death of Conservatism.
During his long career as a journalist, Tanenhaus was also the editor of both The New York Times Book Review and the Week in the Review section of The New York Times. From 1999 to 2004 he was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he wrote often on politics. His articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Atlantic, Esquire, Newsweek, Slate, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and many other publications (in the United States and Europe).
His 1997 biography of Whittaker Chambers was a finalist for both the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
(Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from for...)
1997(The book resides in the examples of pragmatic leaders lik...)
2009(A biography of the famous trumpeter who was one of the fi...)
1989(This concise primer examines the classics as vibrant crea...)
1984Tanenhaus formerly lived in Tarrytown, New York with his wife. Currently, he resides in Essex, Connecticut.
