Ron Rosenbaum

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Ron Rosenbaum (born November 27, 1946 in New York ) is an American journalist.

life and work

Rosenbaum studied English literature at Yale University , where he received his bachelor 's degree in 1968 , but dropped out of his master's degree and began to work as a journalist. Today Rosenbaum is regarded as one of the outstanding representatives of so-called New Journalism . His articles appeared in the 1970s primarily in the Village Voice , later he published in Esquire , The New York Times , the New York Observer , Harper's Magazine and numerous other magazines, among others . Since 2007 he has been writing the column The Spectator in the online magazine slate at irregular intervals . He has also published several non-fiction books, especially his 1998 work Explaining Hitler , which thematizes the numerous attempts by historians, biographers, psychologists, psychoanalysts, philosophers and theologians to explain the development of the character and ideology of Adolf Hitler .

Topics that Rosenbaum repeatedly refers to in his articles are, in addition to Adolf Hitler, in particular anti-Semitism in general, American literature of the post-war period (especially JD Salinger , Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov ), the literary-critical discourse on the works of William Shakespeare , as well as the assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy and the conspiracy theories surrounding it . Unexpectedly, his 1971 article Secrets of the Little Blue Box , published in Esquire , came into the public eye again after Steve Jobs , the founder of Apple , stated in an interview that reading this article had prompted him to decide to deal more closely with computers.

Works

  • Murder at Elaine's (novel, 1978)
  • Rebirth of the Salesman: Tales of the Song & Dance 70's (1979)
  • Manhattan Passions: True Tales of Power, Wealth, and Excess (1988)
  • Travels with Doctor Death (1991)
  • Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil (1998)
  • The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms (2000)
  • (Ed. With Cynthia Ozick ): Those Who Forget the Past: The Question of Anti-Semitism (2004)
  • The Shakespeare Wars (2006)
  • How the End Begins: The Road To a Nuclear World War III (2011)

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Secrets of the Little Blue Box.
personal data
SURNAME Rosenbaum, Ron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH new York