John McDonald (journalist)
John Dennis McDonald (December 5, 1906 – December 23, 1998) was an American journalist, writer, editor, business historian, fisherman, and horse racing enthusiast.
After being a radical Trotzkyite in the 1930s, McDonald joined Fortune magazine's staff in 1945, writing articles and later books about, among other topics, business, economics, games and gambling, and fly fishing.
McDonald's best-known work is My Years With General Motors, the memoir of
McDonald's long and successful legal battle against GM became the subject of his later book A Ghost's Memoir. Finally published in 1964, the Sloan book became a timeless bestseller, widely recognized as one of the most significant works on business.
McDonald was married to the noted artist Dorothy Eisner. He died of respiratory failure in December 1999, he was 92 years old.[1]
Awards
- 1976 Gerald Loeb Memorial Award for excellence in business journalism[2]
References
Notes
- ^ Johnston, David Cay. "John D. McDonald, 92, Author of a Classic on Business Strategy". nytimes.com. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
- Newspapers.com.
Bibliography
- McDonald, John; Seligman, Dan (2003). A ghost's memoir: the making of Alfred P. Sloan's My Years with General Motors. Boston, Massachusetts, US: ISBN 978-0-262-63285-0.
- ISBN 978-0385042352).
External links
John McDonald Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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