# Richard Rovere > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Richard_Rovere > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Richard_Rovere.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rovere > Source revision: 1352144918 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American journalist}} {{More citations needed|date=September 2010}} thumb|alt=Rovere (center) in 1977|Rovere (center) in 1977 '''Richard Halworth Rovere''' (May 5, 1915 – November 23, 1979) was an American political journalist.{{Cite news|title=R. H. Rovere, magazine columnist, author, dies. Political Affairs Columnist Was 64 |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/621357312.html?dids=621357312:621357312&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+24,+1979&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=R.+H.+Rovere,+magazine+columnist,+author,+dies&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103204711/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/621357312.html?dids=621357312:621357312&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+24,+1979&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=R.+H.+Rovere,+magazine+columnist,+author,+dies&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 3, 2012 |quote=Richard H. Rovere, 64, who wrote commentaries on American politics as a columnist for The New Yorker magazine, died Friday of emphysema in Vassar Brothers ... |work=[Chicago Tribune](/source/Chicago_Tribune) |date=November 23, 1979 |access-date=2010-09-13 }} ==Biography== Rovere was born in [Jersey City, New Jersey](/source/Jersey_City%2C_New_Jersey). He graduated from [the Stony Brook School](/source/the_Stony_Brook_School) in 1933 and [Bard College](/source/Bard_College), then a branch of [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University), in 1937. During the [Great Depression](/source/Great_Depression), he was attracted to [Communism](/source/History_of_communism), may or may not have joined the [Party](/source/Communist_Party_USA), and wrote for the ''[New Masses](/source/New_Masses)''.Mark Weisenmiller, “He Was the Predominant Magazine Political Journalist of the 20th Century,” ''History News Network'' [website] , March 15, 2015 In 1939, as a result of the [Nazi-Soviet Pact](/source/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact), he broke with Stalinism and became an anticommunist liberal. In the early 1940s, he was an assistant editor at ''[The Nation](/source/The_Nation)''. He joined ''[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)'' in 1944 and wrote its "Letter from Washington" column from December 1948 until his death. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, he periodically contributed to ''[Esquire](/source/Esquire_(magazine))'', ''[Harper's](/source/Harper's)'', and ''[The American Scholar](/source/The_American_Scholar_(magazine))''; now and then he reported on American matters for Britain's ''[Spectator](/source/The_Spectator)''. His reporting got him on the [master list of Nixon political opponents](/source/master_list_of_Nixon_political_opponents). Rovere wrote an introduction to [Edward Jay Epstein](/source/Edward_Jay_Epstein)'s book ''Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth'' (1966), which was critical of the [Warren Commission](/source/Warren_Commission).{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam |title=Edward Jay Epstein, Author and Stubborn Skeptic, Dies at 88 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/obituaries/edward-jay-epstein-dead.html |work=The New York Times |date=11 January 2024}} He died of [emphysema](/source/emphysema) in [Poughkeepsie, New York](/source/Poughkeepsie_(city)%2C_New_York). ==Blurbs== From the ''Rhinebeck Gazette'' (Rhinebeck, New York), June 18, 1959:
The Gazette received an advanced copy of Richard H. Rovere's book, "Senator Joe McCarthy," from Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. The book is both an analytical biography and a memoir, as well as a commentary on the American political scene. Mr Rovere, who was often an eyewitness observer of the events he describes, lives at 108 Montgomery Street in Rhinebeck.
==Legacy== His papers from 1931 to 1968 are housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives. == Bibliography == {{Incomplete list |date=February 2009}}{{bots|deny=Citation bot}} === Books === *''Howe & Hummel: Their True and Scandalous History'' (1947). Paperback reprint: ''The Weeper and the Blackmailer'' (1950) *''The General and the President'' (with [Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.](/source/Arthur_M._Schlesinger%2C_Jr.), 1951) *''Affairs of State: The Eisenhower Years'' (1956) *''Senator Joe McCarthy'' (1959) *''The American Establishment and Other Reports, Opinions, and Speculations'' (1962) *''The Goldwater Caper'' (1965) *''Waist Deep in the Big Muddy: Personal Reflections on 1968'' (1968) *''Arrivals and Departures: A Journalist's Memoirs'' (1976) *'' Final Reports: Personal Reflections on Politics and History in Our Time'' (1984, published posthumously, foreword by [Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.](/source/Arthur_M._Schlesinger%2C_Jr.)) ===Essays and reporting=== * {{cite journal |ref=none |author1=Rovere, Richard H. |date=February 4, 1950 |title=Wallace |journal=The New Yorker |volume=25 |issue=50 |pages=27–32}}Reminiscences of school days. * [https://archive.org/details/inquestwarrencom0000edwa_o4x8/page/n9/mode/2up Introduction] to {{cite book |title=Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth |date=1966 |publisher=Viking Press |location=New York |oclc=391774 |last=Epstein |first=Edward Jay |author-link=Edward Jay Epstein}} ——————— ;Notes {{reflist|30em|group=lower-alpha}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Further reading== *Allen, Frederick Lewis (April 1944). Personal & Otherwise: Honorable Mixed Fry. ''[Harper's](/source/Harper's)'', pgs. 488–490. *Logan, Andy. (December 10, 1979). Obituary: Richard Rovere. ''[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)'', pgs. 218–219. ==External links== * [https://archive.org/details/americanestablis001909mbp The American Establishment and Other Reports, Opinions, and Speculations] from Archive.org * [https://archive.org/details/goldwatercaper006453mbp The Goldwater Caper] from Archive.org {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rovere, Richard}} Category:1915 births Category:1979 deaths Category:The New Yorker people Category:The Stony Brook School alumni Category:Writers from Jersey City, New Jersey Category:20th-century American writers Category:20th-century American journalists Category:20th-century American male journalists {{US-journalist-1910s-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Richard Rovere](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rovere) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rovere?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.