James Traub
James Traub | |
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 Traub at the 2008 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | 1954 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Journalist |
James Traub (born 1954) is an American journalist. He is a contributing writer for
As a freelance journalist, he has written many book reviews and other articles for the New York Times. His recent writing focuses on politics and international affairs, including profiles of Barack Obama, Al Gore and John McCain. He also wrote a book on Kofi Annan and the United Nations.
New York City is the subject or background of several of his books. His 1990 book Too Good to Be True was about the rise and fall of
He has written extensively on education issues, including his 1994 book City On A Hill, a profile of City College of New York, written after he spent 18 months on campus.[2] He wrote a study of school reform called Better By Design for the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation that profiled ten approaches to school reform. He has also written articles about the No Child Left Behind Act and school choice.
He taught at the
Family
He is the son of Marvin Traub, formerly chairman of Bloomingdale's, and Lee L. Traub, chair emerita of the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance. He is married to Elizabeth Easton, formerly the chair of the Department of European Painting and Sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum and an adjunct professor at New York University.[4] He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University.
Books
- Too Good to Be True: The Outlandish Story of Wedtech, Doubleday, 1990 — ISBN 978-0-385-26182-1
- City On A Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College, Addison Wesley Publishing, 1994 — ISBN 978-0-201-62227-0
- The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square, Random House, 2004 — ISBN 978-0-375-50788-5
- The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006 — ISBN 978-0-374-18220-5
- The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 — ISBN 978-0-374-15847-7
- John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit, Basic Books, 2016 —
- What Was Liberalism?: The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea, Basic Books, 2019 — ISBN 9781541616844
- Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy, Yale University Press, 2021 — ISBN 9780300229264
- True Believer: Hubert Humphrey's Quest for a More Just America, Basic Books, 2024 — ISBN 9781541619579
References
- ^ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008.
- ^ Gross, Barry R. "City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College." Commentary 98.n5 (Nov 1994): 77(3).
- ^ "Elizabeth Easton Wed to James Traub", New York Times, June 17, 1985, pg. C12
- ^ "Staff".
- ^ Ellis, Joseph J. (4 April 2016). "'John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit,' by James Traub". The New York Times.
- ^ "Archives - Philly.com". articles.philly.com.
External links
- Subject James Traub as the subject articles at The New York Times
- Author James Traub as the author articles at The New York Times
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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