Richard Reeves

Richard Reeves is a writer, columnist, and Senior Lecturer at the Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. He has written many presidential biographies including President Kennedy: Profile of Power, which was honored by Time magazine as the Best Non-Fiction Book of 1993, President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination, and his most recent book, Portrait of Camelot: A Thousand Days in the Kennedy White House, released in 2010.

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My Years With Ronald Reagan | February/March 2006

What a skeptical biographer discovered about a very elusive subject Read >>

Modern Times From 1974 | November/December 2004

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History | August/September 2002

A recent presidential edict will make it harder for historians to practice their trade. Read >>

Presidential Scandal | May/June 1998

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The Woman Of The Century | December 1998

You’ve likely never heard of her Read >>

I’m Sorry, Mr. President | December 1996

A VETERAN JOURNALIST reflects on how public discourse has been tarnished by the press’s relentless war against Presidents—including his own biggest offense Read >>

1954 | December 1994

America looked good to a high school senior then, and that year looks wonderfully safe to us now, but it was a time of tumult for all that, and there were plenty of shadows along with the sunshine Read >>

“The Lines Of Control Have Been Cut” | September 1993

Jack Kennedy came into the White House determined to dismantle his Republican predecessor’s rigid, formal staff organization in favor of a spontaneous, flexible, hands-on management style. Thirty years Bill Clinton seems determined to do the same thing. He would do well to remember that what it got JFK was the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam War. Read >>

My Six Years with JFK | November 1993

Living with an endlessly vexing and compelling President thirty years after Dallas Read >>

The Paris Tribune At One Hundred | November 1987

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