| 词条 | Alan Barth |
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BackgroundHe was born Alan Barth Lachheimer on October 21, 1906, in New York City to Jacob and Flora (Barth) Lauchheimer. He received his Ph.B. from Yale University in 1929 and was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University 1948-49.[2] CareerIn 1936, Barth worked on the Beaumont Enterprise in Beaumont, Texas, where he had grown up. In 1938, he went to Washington, DC, as a reporter for the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. In 1941 during World War II, he worked first in the Treasury and then the Office of War Information.[2] In 1943, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, a fellow New Dealer, recommended Barth to Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington Post publisher at that time. Meyer hired him as an editorial writer for a paper. In 1945, Barth denounced a threat by white drivers of buses in Washington, DC, who threatened to strike if the city started to hire black drivers: "To bar men from serving in these jobs because of their race or color is at once to hamper the war program and to subvert the principles for which the war is being waged." In the 1950s, he challenged the investigations of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. In 1950, he defended the performance Earl Browder (former head of the Communist Party of the USA, by McCarthy's Congressional investigating committee for "refusing to identify and stigmatize certain persons whose names were presented to him." By that time, the Post had come under fire as being "pro-Communist."[1][3][4] Barth also contributed to The New York Times Magazine and Book Review.[2] He retired in 1972.[1] Personal and deathBarth married Adrienne Mayer on July 1, 1939. They had two children.[1] He was an advocate for civil rights and for gun control.[1] Joseph Rauh of the American Civil Liberties Union was a close personal friend.[1]He died age 73 of cancer on November 20, 1979, in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Washington, DC.[1][2] LegacyBarth helped change the identity of the Washington Post from conservative to liberal and to an institution dedicated to civil liberties. David Halberstam described Barth as "more passionate than most intelligent men and more intelligent and reasoned than most passionate men."[4] He is the earliest known source of the phrase "News is only the first rough draft of history," writing it in 1943 – see Wikiquote article for details.[5][6] WorksHis best-known book is probably the posthumously published The Rights of Free Men: An Essential Guide to Civil Liberties, a collection of his articles, editorials, speeches, and other material. In 1951, he was awarded the Hillman Prize for his book, The Loyalty of Free Men.[7] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1952.[8] The U.S. Government had it removed from its public bookshelves.[2] Books
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References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite news| first = Jean R.| last = Hailey| title=Alan Barth, Retired Post Writer, Dies| publisher=Washington Post| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/11/21/alan-barth-retired-post-writer-dies/d9deb5a5-ca8d-43f8-bc62-99db4c75e748/| date = 21 November 1979 | accessdate = 3 October 2017}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite news| first = Eric| last = Pace| title=Alan Barth, Editorial Writer, Dies; Championed Civil Liberties Causes| work=The New York Times| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/21/archives/alan-barth-editorial-writer-dies-championed-civil-liberties-causes.html?_r=0| date = 21 November 1979 | accessdate = 3 October 2017}} 3. ^1 {{cite news| title=Alan Barth| publisher=Washington Post| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/11/21/alan-barth/e9154702-c70f-4612-a280-da822c609139/| date = 21 November 1979 | accessdate = 3 October 2017}} 4. ^1 {{cite book |first = David |last = Halberstam |authorlink = David Halberstam |title=The Powers That Be |year=2012 |publisher=Open Road Media |pages=344–348 |quote= | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wDpNIuIcd90C&pg=PT344 |isbn=9781453286098 }} 5. ^Alan Barth, review of The Autobiography of a Curmudgeon by Harold L. Ickes in The New Republic, 1943, collected in The New Republic, Volume 108, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cDgQAAAAIAAJ&q=%22draft+of+history%22 p. 677] 6. ^"Who Said It First? Journalism is the 'first rough draft of history.'" by Jack Shafer, Slate (30 August 2010) 7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/honorees?page=12 |title=The Hillman Prize Previous Honorees |author= |format= |pages=12 |date= |accessdate=2015-05-21 |quote= |publisher=The Sydney Hillman Foundation }} 8. ^{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=May 17, 2011}} 9. ^{{cite journal| first = Alan | last = Barth| title = F.D.R. as a politician| journal = Harper's| publisher = | url = https://harpers.org/archive/1945/02/f-d-r-as-a-politician/| date = February 1945| accessdate = 3 October 2017}} 10. ^{{cite journal| first = Alan | last = Barth| title = How good is an FBI report?| journal = Harper's| publisher = | url = https://harpers.org/archive/1954/03/how-good-is-an-fbi-report/| date = March 1954| accessdate = 3 October 2017}} 11. ^{{cite journal| first = Alan | last = Barth| title = Why handle criminals with kid gloves?| journal = Harper's| publisher = | url = https://harpers.org/archive/1959/09/why-handle-criminals-with-kid-gloves/| date = September 1959| accessdate = 3 October 2017}} External links{{sisterlinks|Alan Barth}}
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