Joe McGinniss

Joe McGinniss (born December 9, 1942 in New York City , † March 10, 2014 in Worcester , Massachusetts ) was an American journalist and writer .

life and career

McGinniss, born in 1942 in New York City, went to the College of the Holy Cross and graduated there in 1964. He became a reporter for the Worcester Telegram in Worcester, Massachusetts. The following year he was a sports reporter for The Philadelphia Bulletin . McGinniss then moved to The Philadelphia Inquirer as a columnist. In 1968 he had the bestseller The Selling of the President 1968 , which is about the description of the election machinery of Richard Nixon . In 1995, McGinniss turned down a $ 1 million offer to write a book about the OJ Simpson trial . His last work from 2011 was about Sarah Palin . He died of prostate cancer at the age of 71 .

Literature in the original English version

• Death Stalks a Grieving Father (1967) in the Philadelphia Inquirer
• The Selling of the President 1968 (1969), ISBN 0-14-011240-5 , Penguin
• The Dream Team (1972), ISBN 0-14-003915-5 , Penguin Books
• Heroes (1976), ISBN 0-671-69511-8 , Touchstone Books
• Going to Extremes (1980), ISBN 978-1-935347-03-3 , Epicenter Press
• Fatal Vision (1983), ISBN 0-399-12816-6 , Putnam Adult
• Blind Faith (1989), ISBN 978-0-399-13352-7 , GP Putnam's Sons
• Cruel Doubt (1991), ISBN 978-0-671-67947-7 , Simon & Schuster
• The Last Brother: The Rise and Fall of Teddy Kennedy (1993), ISBN 978-0-671-67945-3 , Simon & Schuster
• The Miracle of Castel di Sangro (1999), ISBN 0-316-55736-6 , Little Brown and Company
• The Big Horse (2004), ISBN 978-0-7432-6114-2 , Simon & Schuster
• Never Enough (2007), ISBN 978-0-7432-9636-6 , Simon & Schuster
• The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin (2011), ISBN 978-0-307-71892-1 , Crown Publishing Group

Web links

• McGinniss website
• Literature by and about Joe McGinniss in the catalog of the German National Library
• Joe McGinniss in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joe McGinniss Biography. Retrieved March 11, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Joe McGinniss, author of 'Fatal Vision,' dead at 71. Retrieved March 11, 2014 .