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Jules Witcover

AKA Jules Joseph Witcover

Born: 16-Jul-1927
Birthplace: Union City, NJ

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Columnist, Journalist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Longtime Baltimore Sun columnist

Military service: US Navy (1945-46)

Father: Sam
Mother: Sadie
Sister: Marilyn
Wife: (four children)

    University: BA, Columbia University (1949)
    University: MS Journalism, Columbia University (1951)

    The Baltimore Sun (1981-2005)
    The Washington Star
    The Washington Post (1973)
    The Los Angeles Times Washington Correspondent (1970-72)
    Newhouse News Service Chief Political Writer (1962-68)
    The Syracuse Herald-Journal Washington Correspondent (1954-62)
    Irish Ancestry Maternal
    Jewish Ancestry Paternal

Author of books:
Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew
85 Days: The Last Campaign of Robert Kennedy (1969, politics)
The Resurrection of Richard Nixon (1970, politics)
White Knight: The Rise of Spiro Agnew (1972, biography)
A Heartbeat Away: The Investigation and Resignation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (1974, politics)
Marathon: The Pursuit of the Presidency, 1972-1976 (1977, politics)
The Main Chance (1979, novel)
Wake Us When It's Over: Presidential Politics of 1984 (1985, politics)
Sabotage at Black Tom: Imperial Germany's Secret War in America, 1914-1917 (1989, history)
Crapshoot: Rolling the Dice on the Vice Presidency: From Adams and Jefferson to Truman and Quayle (1992, history)
The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in America (1997, history)
No Way to Pick a President (1999, politics)
Party of the People: A History of the Democrats (2003, politics)
The Making of an Ink-Stained Wretch: Half a Century Pounding the Political Beat (2005, memoir)
Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption (2010, biography)


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