Jack Beatty
"The Atlantic Monthly is an American tradition; since 1857 it has helped to shape the American mind and conscience," senior editor Jack Beatty explains. "We are proud of that tradition. It is the tradition of excellence for which we were awarded the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. It is the tie that binds us to our past. It is a standard we won't betray."
Beatty joined The Atlantic Monthly as a senior editor in September of 1983, having previously worked as a book reviewer at Newsweek and as the literary editor of The New Republic.
Born, raised, and educated in Boston, Beatty wrote a best-selling biography of James Michael Curley, the Massachusetts congressman and governor and Boston mayor, which Addison-Wesley published in 1992 to enthusiastic reviews. The Washington Post said, "The Rascal King is an exemplary political biography. It is thorough, balanced, reflective, and gracefully written." The Chicago Sun-Times called it a ". . . beautifully written, richly detailed, vibrant biography." The book was nominated for a National Book Critics' Circle award.
His 1993 contribution to The Atlantic Monthly's Travel pages, "The Bounteous Berkshires," earned these words of praise from The Washington Post: "The best travel writers make you want to travel with them. I, for instance, would like to travel somewhere with Jack Beatty, having read his superb account of a cultural journey to the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts." Beatty is also the author of The World According to Peter Drucker, published in 1998 by The Free Press and called "a fine intellectual portrait" by Michael Lewis in the New York Times Book Review.
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Toward Appomattox
Reliving the war’s final battles
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Cognitive Dissonance
Two new studies of cable news throw light on the sources of Bush's failure-proof support
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A Sisyphean History of Campaign Finance Reform
A look at how we ended up back where we began.
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Television or Democracy?
Al Gore suggests that we cannot have both.
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Casualty of War
Tony Blair has been "the most disastrous and dishonest" prime minister in Britain's modern history, a new book argues.
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The Politics of War
The Iraq war, like most American wars, is a "poor man's fight."
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Cheney Lives!
Cheney's star may have faded at the White House, but his doctrine of preventive war remains Bush policy. Does this mean Iran is next?
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The Fuse
Are we on the brink of a hundred years’ "war of civilizations?"
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Run, Barack, Run
Jack Beatty falls under the spell of a "political talent of a rare order"
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War Disposes
Soon the last of the "doughboys" of 1917-1918 will be gone. What did America's entry into the Great War achieve?
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War and the American Voter
In the five wartime congressional elections since 1860, the "war party" has always taken a shellacking
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The Insecure American
Most Americans today are on an unstable financial footing. Could this become the next hotbutton political issue?
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The "S" Word Spells Trouble for the GOP
If history is any guide, the Republicans will lose the House this year and the presidency in 2008
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Mexico Strikes Back
Unless it is stopped, the Mexican "Reconquista" could obliterate U.S. standards of fairness.
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Tax Evasion
Tax cuts for the very wealthy are draining America's budget more than the Iraq War
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
Is it haplessness or sheer unscrupulousness that's plaguing the Bush presidency?
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Investor Politics
The disillusioned majority is right—America's government can be bought
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The Weimar Analogy
What danger lurks in the alienated hearts of America's nonvoters?
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The Education of Peter Drucker
Jack Beatty, the biographer of renowned management expert Peter Drucker (who died last month at 95), pays tribute to him as one of the twentieth century's greatest influences for the good
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Pat Buchanan's Utopia
The French "model" of integration is the American conservative ideal
