"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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Blame Character
The predictive facts of Bush's disastrous presidency were there for journalists to see. Too bad they didn't look
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White-collar Wasteland
Barbara Ehrenreich's new book, Bait and Switch, is a subversive report from the front lines of disappointment
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Cold War II
With Iran, the only choices left are war and nuclear deterrence. And war is not the answer
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Bush's Folly
How could the billions going toward Iraq be better spent? Let us count the ways
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The Teddy Treatment
Theodore Roosevelt—"master therapist of the middle class"
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Fighting Terrorism With Torture
On September 12, 2001, we merited the world's sympathy. Now we deserve its scorn
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Paris Hilton's Party
The repeal of the estate tax and the dawn of the United States of Aristocracy
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Oligarchy in America
How the Republican Party perfected the techniques of the rule of the few
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Recharging the "L-word"
For their party to thrive, Democrats must embrace the principle of economic interventionism that lies at the heart of liberalism
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Vision Impossible
The unbridgeable chasm between Bush's hopes for the world and America's power to realize them
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The Butcher's Bill
5,000 U.S. soldiers dead, 25,000 wounded, 4,000 bereaved children. A look at the future of the war in Iraq
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Clinton's Perverse Legacy
Is Clinton to blame for the Democratic Party's plight?
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Letter to a Republican
The case against a vote for Bush
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Your Health Insurance Is on the Ballot
The hidden agenda in Bush's "health-care reform" plan
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"The Right Thing?"
Bush's notion of "the right thing" for Iraq was a disaster for America
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The Signs They Carried
Bush's detractors take to the streets with pithy eloquence
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Notes on the Unseen Convention
The underside of the Democratic National Convention
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Humphrey Redux?
Like Humphrey in '68, Kerry is out of step with voters on an upopular war
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The “City Upon a Hill”
In the first of several dispatches from the Democratic National Convention, Jack Beatty advises Democrats on what they can learn from Boston
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Scoop!
An advance look at the speech John Kerry will—or at any rate should—deliver at next week's Democratic convention in Boston