Jack Beatty

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Jack J. Beatty (born May 15, 1945)[1] is an American writer, senior editor of The Atlantic,[2] and news analyst for On Point, the national NPR news program.

Early life

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Beatty was born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.[2]

He attended Boston Latin School, Boston State College, and the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.[1][3]

Career

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Beatty joined The Atlantic Monthly in 1983 as a senior editor. He previously worked as a book reviewer for Newsweek and as the literary editor of The New Republic.[2]

In addition to editing many of The Atlantic's major nonfiction pieces, Beatty was also in charge of the book-review section.[2] Beatty also wrote for the magazine himself, including on travel.[2]

Beatty's 1992 biography of James Michael Curley was nominated for a National Book Critics' Circle award.[2] His book Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America was commissioned by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.[4]

Awards

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Bibliography

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  • Beatty, Jack (1992). The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0201175991.
    • — (2000). The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958 (Paperback ed.). New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780306810022.
  • — (August 1996). "A Race Too Far?". Politics. The Atlantic Monthly. 278 (2): 21–25.[6]
  • Jack Beatty, ed. (2001). Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America. Broadway Books. ISBN 978-0-7679-0352-3.
  • "A Miserable Failure", The Atlantic, September 24, 2003
  • Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865–1900. Random House. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4000-3242-6.
  • Jack Beatty, ed. (2004). Pols: Great Writers on American Politicians from Bryan to Reagan. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-58648-015-8.
  • Beatty, Jack (1998). The World According to Peter Drucker. The Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-83801-4.
  • The Lost History of 1914: How the Great War Was Not Inevitable. London; Berlin [u.a.]: Bloomsbury, 2012. ISBN 978-1-408-82796-3.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Beatty, Jack 1945–". Encyclopedia.com. 2009. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Beatty Biography". The Atlantic.
  3. ^ University of Massachusetts Boston Commencement 1994 (PDF), University of Massachusetts Boston, 1994, p. 2, archived from the original (PDF) on January 5, 2011
  4. ^ "'Colossus' makes literary sense of U.S. corporations". www.usatoday.com. Archived from the original on February 15, 2002. Retrieved November 15, 2025.
  5. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Jack J. Beatty". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  6. ^ William Weld runs against John Kerry in 1996 U.S. Senate election.
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