Terry Golway

Terry Golway is a historian, author, and a journalist, having served as a columnist and editorial board member for The New York Times and a long-time editor and writer at The New York Observer.

Career

In 2010, Golway discovered a historic early census count predating the creation of the United States at Liberty Hall National Historic Landmark at Kean.^[1] He is the author of several books on American and Irish history.^[2]

Golway's book on John F. Kennedy, JFK: Day by Day, was made into an iPad app to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's inauguration.^[3]

Golway is an occasional op-ed columnist for The New York Times,^[4][5] where he was once a member of the editorial board.^[6][7] Previously, he spent two decades at The New York Observer.^[7] As of March 2013^[update] he still writes periodic pieces for the “pink paper of lore” (The New York Observer); he served as a political reporter, city editor and columnist for that paper in earlier years.^[8]

Books authored

• JFK: Day by Day: A Chronicle of the 1,036 Days of John F. Kennedy's Presidency
• Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution
• Give 'Em Hell: The Tumultuous Years of Harry Truman's Presidency, in His Own Words
• Ronald Reagan's America: His Voice, His Dreams, and His Vision of Tomorrow
• So Others Might Live: A History of New York's Bravest
• Together We Cannot Fail: FDR and the American Presidency in Years of Crisis
• Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America's Fight for Ireland's Freedom
• Full of Grace: An Oral Biography of John Cardinal O'Connor
• For the Cause of Liberty: A Thousand Years of Ireland's Heroes
• Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics
• Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party

References