TD Allman

TD Allman

Timothy D. Allman (born October 16, 1944 in Tampa , Florida ) is an American journalist and non-fiction author best known for his war coverage.

Life

Allman studied at Harvard University (MA 1966) and then served as a volunteer in the Peace Corps in Nepal (1966–1968). He began his journalistic career while still a student as a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News and the Philadelphia Bulletin . From 1968 he reported as a freelance journalist from Indochina and in the following years caused a sensation with his reports on the "secret war" of the American secret service CIA in Laos and Cambodia. From 1971 he wrote as a Southeast Asia correspondent for the British The Guardian and for Le Monde diplomatique .

From 1977 to 1982 he was editor of the Pacific News Service , and from 1977 to 1984 also editor of Harper's Magazine . Furthermore, Allman was from 1987 to 1995 foreign correspondent for Vanity Fair and from 1995 employed editor at the New Yorker . Since 1997 he has been working as a freelance journalist again. His reports from the Colombian drug war as well as from the second and third Gulf War received great attention during this period . He also published two books about his home state Florida.

Works in book length

• Anatomy of a Coup . Glad Day Press, Itica, NY. 1970.
• Unmanifest Destiny: Mayhem and Illusion in American Foreign Policy from the Monroe Doctrine to Reagan's War in El Salvador . Dial Press, Garden City NJ 1984. ISBN 978-0-385-27464-7 .
• Miami: City of the Future . Atlantic Monthly Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-87113-102-7 .
• Rogue State: America at War with the World . Nation Books, Emeryville CA 2004. ISBN 978-1-56025-562-8 .
• Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State . Atlantic Monthly Press, New York 2013. ISBN 978-0-8021-2076-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959–1975 . Library of America , New York 2000, ISBN 978-1-883011-90-1 , p. 795.