Tom Wicker (1926–2011)
Author of Dwight D. Eisenhower
About the Author
Tom Wicker was born in Hamlet, North Carolina on June 18, 1926. He served in the Navy during World War II. He received a degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1948. Over the next decade, he was an editor and reporter at several newspapers in North Carolina. He show more started working for The New York Times in 1960 and became the paper's Washington bureau chief and a political columnist for 25 years. He was riding in the presidential motorcade when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He wrote 20 books, 10 fiction works and 10 non-fiction works. His fiction works include Facing the Lions, Unto This Hour, Donovan's Wife, and Easter Lilly. His non-fiction works include A Time to Die, Kennedy without Tears: The Man Beneath the Myth, JFK and LBJ: The Influence of Personality Upon Politics, One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream, Tragic Failure: Racial Integration in America, On the Record: An Insider's Guide to Journalism, and Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy. He died of a heart attack on November 25, 2011 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Tom Wicker
Associated Works
What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (1999) — Contributor — 1,776 copies
What Ifs? of American History : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (2003) — Contributor — 503 copies
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968) — Introduction, some editions — 330 copies
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Contributor — 155 copies
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Contributor — 134 copies
Forgotten Heroes: Inspiring American Portraits from Our Leading Historians (1999) — Contributor — 110 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1998 (1998) — Author "Vietnam in America, 1865" — 15 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1998 (1998) — Author "Turing Point in the Wilderness" — 14 copies
Thomas Jefferson: Selected Writings (Library of America Paperback Classics) (2011) — Introduction, some editions — 10 copies
The hard years : a look at contemporary America and American institutions (1975) — Introduction, some editions — 9 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 2000 (2000) — Author "A Hellish Start to the Year" — 9 copies
Best in Books: Sea Jade, Kennedy without Tears, If Morning Ever Comes, The Ziegfeld's Girl, A Vanishing America (1965) — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Canonical name
- Wicker, Tom
- Legal name
- Wicker, Thomas Grey
- Other names
- Connolly, Paul (pen name)
- Birthdate
- 1926-06-18
- Date of death
- 2011-11-25
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Hamlet, North Carolina, USA
- Place of death
- Rochester, Vermont, USA
- Education
- University of North Carolina (Journalism, 1948)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Organizations
- The New York Times
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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