John Chamberlain (journalist)
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Born | John Rensselaer Chamberlain October 28, 1903 Libertarian thought |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse | Ernestine Stodelle |
John Rensselaer Chamberlain (October 28, 1903 – April 9, 1995) was an American journalist, business and economic historian, syndicated columnist, and literary critic who was dubbed "one of America's most trusted book reviewers" by the libertarian magazine The Freeman.[2]
Early life
Born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1903, John Chamberlain attended the Loomis Institute in Windsor, Connecticut,[3] and graduated from Yale University in 1925,[4] where he was chairman of the campus humor magazine The Yale Record.[5]
He began his career in journalism at the
Chamberlain was a member of the
He also taught journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where his students included the noted journalists Marguerite Higgins, Elie Abel and Edith Efron.[7]
Changing political beliefs
There is nothing like a fact to kill a theory.
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In 1939, Chamberlain was among the "editorial sponsors" of the Writer's Anti-War Bureau that was formed by an informal group of journalists and publicists under the leadership of
In the early 1940s, Chamberlain moved to the intellectual Right, along with friends such as former
In 1946,
From 1950 to 1960, he was an editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal.[12]
William F. Buckley Jr. credited Chamberlain with "changing the course of his life" by writing the "Introduction" to Buckley's first book, God and Man at Yale.[13] Later, Chamberlain became a lifelong contributing editor for Buckley's magazine, National Review, from its founding until his death. He still occasionally differed from Buckley; for example, he praised Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.[14]
For more than twenty-five years, he wrote a syndicated column for
After his first wife died in 1954, he married Ernestine Stodelle, who had previously been married to the Russian theatrical director Theodore Komisarjevsky.[15]
Books
- Farewell to Reform, Being a History of the Rise, Life and Decay of the Progressive Mind in America (1932)
- The American Stakes (1940)
- The Roots of Capitalism (1959)
- The Enterprising Americans: a Business History of the United States' (Harper & Row, 1963)
- The National Review Reader
- Freedom and Independence: The Hillsdale Story (1979)
- A Life With the Printed Word (Regnery, 1982)
- The Turnabout Years (Jameson, 1991)[4]
References
- ^ Kauffman, Bill, "Reason Interview with John Chamberlain," Reason, March 1987, https://reason.com/1987/03/01/reason-interview-with-john-cha/
- ^ a b Opitz, Edmund A., "A Reviewer Remembered: John Chamberlain 1903–1995," The Freeman, June, 1995, vol. 45, iss. 6.
- ISBN 978-0195222029.
- ^ a b c d e "John Chamberlain, Columnist, Dies at 91". New York Times. 1995-04-13. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
- ^ Carnes, Marc C., ed. (2005) American National Biography: Supplement 2. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 84.
- ^ Chamberlain, A Life With the Printed Word, p. 65.
- ^ Chamberlain, pp. 93–94.
- ^ https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/uncensored.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^ Diggins, Up From Communism.
- ^ Chamberlain, p. 136.
- ^ Chamberlain, p. 138; Hamilton, Charles H., "The Freeman: the Early Years," The Freeman, Dec. 1984, vol. 34, issue 12.
- ^ Chamberlain, pp. 72–173 [136–139].
- ^ Chamberlain, p. 147.
- ^ Chamberlain, pp. 149–150.
- ^ Beach, Randall (2011-10-31). "Komisarjevsky's Father Testifies During Penalty Phase". Litchfield County Times. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
Sources
- Chamberlain, John (1982). A Life With the Printed Word. Chicago: ISBN 0895266563.
- Diggins, John P., Up From Communism, Harper & Row, 1975.
- Kauffman, Bill, "Reason Interview with John Chamberlain," Reason, March 1987, [1] (retrieved 1-25-23).
- Opitz, Edmund A., "A Reviewer Remembered: John Chamberlain 1903–1995," The Freeman, June, 1995 [2] (retrieved 4-12-09).
- The New York Times, "John Chamberlain, Columnist, Dies at 91," April 13, 1995 [3] (retrieved 4-12-09).
- Mark Christopher Carnes, Paul R. Betz – American National Biography: Supplement
External links
- John Rensselaer Chamberlain at Find a Grave
- John Chamberlain Typescripts at Dartmouth College Library