Stewart Alsop

Stewart Alsop (born May 17, 1914 in Avon, Connecticut ; died May 26, 1974 in Bethesda, Maryland ) was an American journalist.

Alsop studied at Yale University ( BA 1936) and then worked as an editor at the New York publisher Doubleday Doran & Company. After the outbreak of World War II, he volunteered for the US Army , but was retired for medical reasons. Instead, he was signed up by the British Army and initially served as an infantry officer on the Italian front. In 1944 he was finally admitted to service in the US Army and immediately assigned to a special unit controlled by the Intelligence Service Office of Strategic Services , which a few days after D-Day was parachuted behind the German ranks and supported the French Maquis in the Périgord ; for this he was later awarded the Croix de guerre .

In the following decades he worked as a journalist. From 1945 to 1958, he and his brother Joseph Alsop wrote the domestic political column Matter of Fact for the New York Herald Tribune every other day , which was soon reprinted by other newspapers in the country. Politically, the two brothers were conservative and were close to the Republican Party . From 1962 to 1968, Alsop was editor of the Saturday Evening Post , then he wrote a weekly column for Newsweek from 1968 to 1974 .

Works

• (with Thomas Braiden): Sub Rosa: The OSS and American Espionage .
• (with Joseph Alsop): We Accuse! The Story of the Miscarriage of American Justice in the Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1954)
• (with Joseph Alsop): The Reporter's Trade (1958, with Joseph Alsop)
• Nixon & Rockefeller: A Double Portrait (1960)
• The Center: People and Power in Political Washington (1968)
• Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir (1973)

Secondary literature

• Robert W. Merry: Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop, Guardians of the American Century . Viking, New York 1996, ISBN 0-670-83868-3 .