John Maxwell Hamilton

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'''John Maxwell Hamilton''' (born March 28, 1947) is a journalist, public servant, and educator. He is a Boyd Professor, the highest academic rank at Louisiana State University, and holds the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professorship in the Manship School of Mass Communication. He is also a columnist for RealClearPolitics.

== Career == Hamilton is the author or coauthor of eight books and editor of many more. Two of his more recent books are ''Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda''<ref name=":1" /> and ''Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting.''<ref name=":2" /> Each of them won the Goldsmith Prize among other awards. His other books include ''Edgar Snow: A Biography''<ref name=":0" /> and the lighthearted ''Casanova Was A Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities about the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books.''<ref name=":3" /> ''The French 75''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hamilton |first=John |date=2024 |title=The French 75 |url=https://lsupress.org/9780807181768/the-french-75/ |website= |publisher=LSU Press |language=en-US}}</ref>'','' the story of a cannon, a cocktail, and propaganda appeared in 2024.

As a journalist, Hamilton reported in the United States and abroad for the ''Milwaukee Journal,'' the ''Christian Science Monitor'', and ABC radio. He was a longtime commentator for MarketPlace, broadcast nationally by Public Radio International.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-01-03|title=LSU Manship School of Mass Communication|url=http://www.manship.lsu.edu/staff/john-maxwell-hamilton/|access-date=2020-10-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103170659/http://www.manship.lsu.edu/staff/john-maxwell-hamilton/|archive-date=2017-01-03}}</ref> His work has appeared in the ''New York Times,'' the ''Washington Post'', ''Politico'', ''Foreign Affairs,'' and ''The Nation'', among other publications.

In government, Hamilton oversaw nuclear non-proliferation issues for the House Foreign Affairs Committee, served in the State Department during the Carter administration as special assistant to the head of the U.S. foreign aid program in Asia, and managed a World Bank program to educate Americans about economic development.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} He served in Vietnam as a Marine Corps platoon commander and in Okinawa as a reconnaissance company commander.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

In his twenty years as an LSU administrator, Hamilton was founding dean of the Manship School and the university's executive vice-chancellor and provost.<ref name="man">{{Cite web |url=http://www.manship.lsu.edu/staff/john-maxwell-hamilton/ |title=LSU Manship School of Mass Communication |access-date=2014-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103170659/http://www.manship.lsu.edu/staff/john-maxwell-hamilton/ |archive-date=2017-01-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> While he was dean, the Manship School created a doctoral degree devoted to media and public affairs, and launched the Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs and a related opinion research facility. The number of majors more than doubled as did the size of the faculty and staff; the school's endowment more than sextupled.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

In the 1980s, Hamilton established a foreign news project for the Society of Professional Journalists and for the American Society of Newspaper editors. The ''National Journal'' said in the 1980s that Hamilton shaped public opinion about the complexity of U.S.-Third World relations probably "more than any other single journalist."{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} For many years, Hamilton was on the board of the Lamar Corporation, the largest outdoor advertising company (by number of outdoor signs) in the United States.

In 2023, Hamilton won the Donald L. Shaw Senior Scholar Award for excellence in journalism history, given by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's History Division, and the Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History, the highest honor of the American Journalism History Association.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=LSU Manship School's John Hamilton Honored for Media History Excellence by AEJMC |url=https://www.lsu.edu/manship/news/2023/june/john-hamilton-honored-with-donald-shaw-award.php |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=www.lsu.edu}}</ref> He received the Freedom Forum's Administrator of the Year Award in 2003.<ref name="man" /> He has received funding from the Carnegie and Ford Foundations, among others. In 2002 he was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He has served twice as a Pulitzer Prize jurist. Hamilton is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and the Overseas Press Club. Hamilton serves on the board of the International Center for Journalists, of which he is treasurer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Board of Directors |url=https://www.icfj.org/about/board-directors |access-date=2020-10-05 |website=International Center for Journalists |language=en}}</ref>

Hamilton earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Marquette and Boston University respectively, and a doctorate in American Civilization from George Washington University.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

== Awards == *Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History *Donald L. Shaw Senior Scholar Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's History Division, 2023<ref name=":4" /> *Two-time winner of the Goldsmith Prize<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-23 |title=Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda - Goldsmith Awards |url=https://goldsmithawards.org/honoree/manipulating-the-masses-woodrow-wilson-and-the-birth-of-american-propaganda/ |access-date=2022-06-28 |language=en-US}}</ref> *Two-time winner of Book of the Year Award, American Journalism Historians Association *Book of the year, History Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication *Culbert Family Book Prize for Publications on Media History<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chapman |first=Llewella |date=2022-05-02 |title=Culbert Family Book Prize for Publications on Media History dealing with Propaganda, Mass Persuasion and Public Opinion: Winner 2022 |url=http://iamhist.net/2022/05/culbert-family-book-prize-winner-2022/ |access-date=2022-06-28 |language=en-US}}</ref> *Tankard Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication<ref>{{Cite web |title=Big news for Journalism's Roving Eye! |url=https://lsupress.typepad.com/lsu_press_blog/2010/08/a-trifecta-of-awards-for-journalisms-roving-eye.html |access-date=2022-06-28 |website=LSU Press Blog}}</ref> *Unsung Hero Award, selected by LSU Martin Luther King Commemorative Committee, 2006 *Omicron Delta Kappa, National Leadership Honorary Society, inducted 2004 *Freedom Forum Journalism Administrator of the Year, 2003

== Publications == # ''The French 75'' # ''Main Street America and the Third World''<ref>{{cite book|last=Hamilton|first=John|title=Main Street America and the Third World|year=1988|publisher=Seven Locks Press|isbn= 9780932020642|pages=220|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=15w7AAAAMAAJ&q=main+street+america+and+the+third+world}}</ref> # ''Entangling Alliances: How The Third World Shapes our Lives''<ref>{{cite book|last=Hamilton|first=John|title=Entangling Alliances: how the Third World shapes our lives|year=1990|publisher=Seven Lock Press|isbn= 9780932020826|pages=204|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8NuFAAAAIAAJ&q=entangling+alliances}}</ref> # ''Edgar Snow: A Biography''<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last=Hamilton|first=John|title=Edgar Snow: A Biography|year=2003|publisher=LSU Press|isbn= 9780807129128|pages=384|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8XChoXWam0wC&q=edgar+snow}}</ref> # ''Hold the Press: The Inside Story on Newspapers'' (with co-author George Krimsky)<ref>{{cite book|last=Hamilton|first=John|title=Hold the Press: The Inside Story on Newspapers|year=1997|publisher=LSU Press|isbn= 9780807121900|pages=216|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DxKtudHV58AC&q=hold+the+press}}</ref> # ''Casanova Was a Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities About the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books''<ref name=":3">{{cite book|last=Hamilton|first=John|title=Casanova Was a Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities About the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books|year=2000|publisher=LSU Press|isbn= 9780807125540|pages=351|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M79HuG-HhzMC&q=casanova+was+a+book+lover}}</ref> # ''Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Newsgathering Abroad''<ref name=":2">{{cite book|last=Hamilton|first=John|title=Journalism's Roving Eye: a history of American Foreign Reporting|year=2009|publisher=LSU Press|isbn= 9780807134740|pages=655|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=91ODz4F4pWgC&q=journalisms+roving+eye}}</ref> # ''The Washington Post,'' [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/happy-100th-birthday-information-warfare/2014/08/01/3786e262-1732-11e4-85b6-c1451e622637_story.html "Happy 100th birthday, information warfare: How World War I led to modern propaganda and surveillance"] # ''The Washington Post'', [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-2016-were-going-to-campaign-like-its-1916/2015/01/02/7c2fab58-8a08-11e4-a085-34e9b9f09a58_story.html "In 2016, we're going to campaign like its 1916"] # ''The Conversation'', [https://theconversation.com/why-you-should-care-about-the-third-dimension-of-government-information-40430 "Why you should care about the 'Third Dimension' of government information"] # ''The Conversation,'' [https://theconversation.com/the-sinking-of-the-lusitania-how-the-british-won-american-hearts-and-minds-40530 "The sinking of the Lusitania: how the British won American hearts and minds"] # ''The New York Times,'' [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/opinion/all-the-presidents-propaganda.html "All the President's Propaganda"] # ''Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda''<ref name=":1">{{cite book|last=Hamilton|first=John|title=Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda|year=2020|publisher=LSU Press|url=https://www.brooklinebooksmith.com/book/9780807170779}}</ref> # ''Public Service or Propaganda? How Americans Evaluate Political Advocacy by Executive Agencies''<ref>{{cite journal|last=Hamilton|first=John|title=Public Service or Propaganda? How Americans Evaluate Political Advocacy by Executive Agencies|year=2020|journal=Social Science Quarterly|volume=101|pages=144–160|doi=10.1111/ssqu.12736|s2cid=210592413 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ssqu.12736|url-access=subscription}}</ref> #''The Natural History of the News: An Epigenetic Study''<ref>{{cite journal|last=Hamilton|first=John|title=The Natural History of the News: An Epigenetic Study|journal=Journalism|year=2017|volume=18|issue=4|pages=391–407|publisher=Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism|doi=10.1177/1464884915625630|hdl=2429/58229|s2cid=147991067|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1464884915625630?icid=int.sj-abstract.similar-articles.2|hdl-access=free|url-access=subscription}}</ref> #''Herbert Corey’s Great War: A Memoir of World War I by the American Reporter Who Saw It All''<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hamilton |first1=John Maxwell |title=Herbert Corey's Great War: A Memoir of World War I by the American Reporter Who Saw It All |last2=Finn |first2=Peter |publisher=LSU Press |year=2022 |isbn=9780807177952}}</ref>

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