- Andrew Kopkind
Andrew Kopkind (
August 24 ,1935 –October 23 ,1994 ) was a radical Americanjournalist . He was renowned for his reporting during the tumultuous years of the late 1960s; he wrote about the anti-Vietnam War protests, American Civil Rights Movement,Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee , Students for a Democratic Society, theBlack Panther Party , the Weathermen, President Johnson's "Great Society " initiatives, andCalifornia gubernatorial campaign ofRonald Reagan .Kopkind was born in
New Haven, Connecticut . He received aB.A. fromCornell University (1957), where he was editor of the "Cornell Daily Sun ".From 1958 to 1959, Kopkind worked as a reporter for the "
Washington Post ". He then studied at theLondon School of Economics , receiving anM.S. in 1961.In 1961, Kopkind joined staff of "
Time Magazine ", reporting mainly from California. From 1965 to 1967, he was associate editor of "The New Republic "; from 1965 to 1969 he was a correspondent for "New Statesman ". In 1968, he founded "Hard Times" and worked briefly for "Ramparts" (1970).From the 1970s onwards, he contributed regularly to "
The Village Voice ", "New York Review of Books ", "The Nation ", and "Grand Street".In the early 1970s he and his long-time companion,
John Scagliotti , hosted the "Lavender Hour," the first commercial gay/lesbian radio show. [cite book
last = Schechter
first = Danny
title = The More You Watch, The Less You Know: News Wars/(sub)merged Hopes/media
publisher = Seven Stories Press
date = 1999
pages = 110
url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YrIh0k32l-IC&pg=PA110&d
isbn =1888363800 ]Kopkind died of cancer in 1994, at age 59.
Kopkind authored two books: "America: The Mixed Curse" (1969) and "The Thirty Years' Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965-1994", an anthology of his writing which was published posthumously in 1995, with an introduction by
Alexander Cockburn .References
External links
* [http://www.nybooks.com/authors/5008 Index of Kopkind's "New York Review of Books" articles]
* [http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=19841103&s=kopkind "The Age of Reaganism: A Man and a Movement"] , by Andrew Kopkind, "The Nation", November 3, 1984
* [http://www.ex-premie.org/pages/ramparts73.htm#two "Mystic Politics: Refugees from the New Left"] , by Andrew Kopkind, "Ramparts", July 1973
* [http://robwalker.net/html_docs/kopkind.html "Andrew Kopkind's Wars"] , Rob Walker,"The Texas Observer ", July 14, 1995
* [http://www.nationalphilistine.com/baghdad/text/kopkind.html Fragments from "The Thirty Years' Wars"]
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