Clark R. Mollenhoff
Clark R. Mollenhoff (April 16, 1921 – March 2, 1991) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist, an attorney who served as Presidential Special Counsel, and a columnist for The Des Moines Register.
Life and career
Born in
In 1955 he was given the
In 1959 he received the
Eisenhower Fellowships selected Mollenhoff as a USA Eisenhower Fellow in 1960.
In 1965, Mollenhoff published Despoilers of Democracy, which provided details of corruption associated with Senate Majority Leader
In 1969 he served for a year as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon, after which he became the Register's Washington bureau chief.[1]
In 1976 Mollenhoff became a professor at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia while continuing to write a column for the Register.[1]
In 1988 he wrote a biography of
Mollenhoff wrote twelve books and won many additional awards.
While living in Lexington, Virginia, Clark R. Mollenhoff died of cancer on March 2, 1991 at the age of 69.
The Clark Mollenhoff Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting is awarded annually by the
Books
- Washington Cover-Up: How Bureaucratic Secrecy Promotes Corruption and Waste in the Federal Government (1962), Doubleday. ISBN 0548443475(2007 edition)
- Tentacles of Power: The Story of Jimmy Hoffa (1965), World Publishing
- Despoilers of Democracy: The real story of what Washington propagandists, arrogant bureaucrats, mismanagers, influence peddlers, and outright corrupters are doing to our Federal Government (1965), Doubleday
- The Pentagon: Politics, Profits and Plunder (1967), G.P. Putnam's Sons
- George Romney: Mormon in Politics (1968), Meredith Press
- Strike Force: Organized Crime and the Government (1972), Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-852772-5
- The Man Who Pardoned Nixon (1976), The K.S. Giniger Company, Inc., ISBN 978-0-900997-89-1
- Game Plan for Disaster (1976), W.W. Norton & Co., ISBN 0-393-05543-4
- The President Who Failed: Carter out of Control (1980), Free Press, ISBN 0-02-921750-4
- Investigative Reporting: From Courthouse to White House (1981), Macmillan, ISBN 0-02-381870-0
- Atanasoff: Forgotten Father of the Computer. Ames, IOWA: Iowa State University Press. 1988. ISBN 0-8138-0032-3. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
- Ballad to an Iowa Farmer: and Other Reflections (1991), Iowa State University Press ISBN 0-8138-1458-8
References
- ^ a b c d Mollenhoff biography at The Des Moines Register Accessed June 6, 2015
- ^ "CLARK MOLLENHOFF, 69, PULITZER PRIZE WINNER". The Morning Call. March 3, 1991.
- ^ Smith, J.Y. (March 3, 1991). "PULITZER-WINNING REPORTER CLARK R. MOLLENHOFF DIES". The Washington Post.
- ISBN 0-8138-0032-3. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
- ^ Clark Mollenhoff Award Archived 2012-06-10 at the Wayback Machine Accessed June 6, 2015