Susan Jacoby
Autore di The Age of American Unreason
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Susan Jacoby began her writing career as a reporter for The Washington Post. Her first book, Moscow Conversations, was based on the articles she contributed to the Post from Moscow between 1969 and 1971. Her other books include Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge, The Possible She, Half-Jew: A mostra altro Daughter's Search for Her Family's Buried Past, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, The Age of American Unreason, The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought, and Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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America's Working Women: A Documentary History 1600 to the Present (1976) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 138 copie
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- Data di nascita
- 1946
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Michigan State University
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
- Organizzazioni
- The Washington Post
Center for Inquiry - Agente
- Anne Borchardt
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- She writes The Spirited Atheist blog for On Faith, a website sponsored by The Washington Post.Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age is Susan Jacoby's tenth nonfiction book. Her most recent books include the New York Times bestseller, The Age of American Unreason (2008) and Alger Hiss and The Battle for History (2009). An independent scholar whose work now focuses on American intellectual history, the author began her writing career as a reporter for The Washington Post.
Jacoby’s Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (2004), was hailed in The New York Times as an "ardent and insightful work" that "seeks to rescue a proud tradition from the indifference of posterity." Named a notable nonfiction book of 2004 by The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, Freethinkers was cited in England as one of the outstanding international books of the year by the Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian. Freethinkers was featured in an interview on NOW with Bill Moyers.
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The author’s previous books, include Moscow Conversations (1972), based on her experiences in Moscow from 1969 to 1971. Among her other books are Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge (Harper & Row), a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1984, and Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search for Her Family's Buried Past (Scribner, 2000).
Jacoby has been a contributor for more than 25 years, on topics including law, religion, medicine, aging, women's rights, political dissent in the Soviet Union, and Russian literature, to a wide range of periodicals and newspapers. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Washington Post Book World, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Newsday, Harper's, The Nation, Vogue, The American Prospect, Mother Jones, and the AARP Magazine, among other publications. They have been reprinted in numerous anthologies of columns and magazine articles.
She is also the author of the weekly column, "The Spirited Atheist," at the On Faith website published by The Washington Post.
Susan Jacoby has been the recipient of many grants and awards, from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Ford Foundations, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2001-2002, she was named a fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
Susan Jacoby lives in New York City.
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