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Interview with Richard Reeves

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Contributor

Reeves, Richard, 1936- ; McKiernan, Stephen

Description

Richard Reeves is a writer, columnist, and lecturer at the University of Southern California. He received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1960. After a year working as an engineer, he decided to go into journalism. He wrote books about politics and many other topics. Reeves has won several national awards for his work, including President Kennedy: Profile of Power, which was named the Best Non-Fiction Book of 1993 by Time magazine and Book of the Year by Washington Monthly.

Date

2010-04-22

Rights

In copyright

Date Modified

2018-03-29

Is Part Of

McKiernan Interviews

Extent

148:12

Date of Interview

2010-04-22

Interviewer

Stephen McKiernan

Interviewee

Richard Reeves, 1936-

Biographical Text

Richard Reeves is a writer, columnist, and lecturer at the University of Southern California. He received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1960. After a year working as an engineer, he decided to go into journalism. He wrote books about politics and many other topics. Reeves has won several national awards for his work, including President Kennedy: Profile of Power, which was named the Best Non-Fiction Book of 1993 by Time magazine and Book of the Year by Washington Monthly.

Duration

148:12

Language

English

Digital Publisher

Binghamton University Libraries

Digital Format

audio/mp4

Original Format

2 Microcassettes

Material Type

Sound

Interview Format

Audio

Subject LCSH

Authors; Journalists; Awards—United States; Reeves, Richard, 1936--Interviews

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Keywords

College tuition; Baby boom generation; Mass entitlement; Ronald Reagan; American Journey: Traveling with Tocqueville in Search of Democracy in America (book); Segregation; Native Americans; Harvard Crimson; Journalism; Civil Rights Movement; Technology; Richard Nixon.

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About this Collection

Collection Description

Stephen McKiernan's collection of interviews includes more than two hundred interviews with prominent figures of the 1960s, which were collected between the mid-1990s and 2010s. The collection provides narratives of people who were actively involved in or witnessed events in the 1960s, an era which spurred profound cultural and… More

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“Interview with Richard Reeves,” Digital Collections, accessed April 24, 2024, https://omeka.binghamton.edu/omeka/items/show/928.