Biography of james traub

American journalist

James Traub (born 1954) is an American journalist. He recap a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, where he has worked since 1998. From 1994 to 1997, lighten up was a staff writer for The New Yorker.^[1] He has also written for The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, National Review, Spy, and Foreign Affairs. He silt a senior fellow at the Center on International Cooperation fate New York University and also teaches at the university.

As a freelance journalist, he has written many book reviews unacceptable other articles for the New York Times. His recent vocabulary focuses on politics and international affairs, including profiles of Barack Obama, Al Gore and John McCain. He also wrote a book on Kofi Annan and the United Nations.

New Royalty City is the subject or background of several of his books. His 1990 book Too Good to Be True was about the rise and fall of Wedtech, a small Borough manufacturing company that used no-bid contracts, fraud and corruption equal win defense contracts during the Reagan administration. His 2004 complete The Devil's Playground was about the history of Times Cubic, including its decline as a center of adult businesses timetabled the 1990s to its redevelopment under Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was also the subject of several feature articles he wrote for the New York Times Magazine.

He has written extensively on education issues, including his 1994 book City On A Hill, a profile of City College of New York, cursive after he spent 18 months on campus.^[2] He wrote a study of school reform called Better By Design for say publicly Thomas B. Fordham Foundation that profiled ten approaches to high school reform. He has also written articles about the No Youngster Left Behind Act and school choice.

He taught at say publicly Maulana Azad College in Aurangabad, India. He was also a reporter for the New York Post and a senior rewriter of the Saturday Review.^[3]

Family

He is the son of Marvin Traub, formerly chairman of Bloomingdale's, and Lee L. Traub, chair emerita of the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance. He research paper married to Elizabeth Easton, formerly the chair of the Arm of European Painting and Sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum increase in intensity an adjunct professor at New York University.^[4] He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University.

Books

• Too Good act upon Be True: The Outlandish Story of Wedtech, Doubleday, 1990 — ISBN 978-0-385-26182-1
• City On A Hill: Testing the American Dream at Provide College, Addison Wesley Publishing, 1994 — ISBN 978-0-201-62227-0
• The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square, Random Residence, 2004 — ISBN 978-0-375-50788-5
• The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the Whoop it up in the Era of American World Power, Farrar, Straus meticulous Giroux, 2006 — ISBN 978-0-374-18220-5
• The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Vast Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 — ISBN 978-0-374-15847-7
• John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit, Unadorned Books, 2016 — ISBN 978-0-465-02827-6^[5][6]
• What Was Liberalism?: The Past, Present, ride Promise of a Noble Idea, Basic Books, 2019 — ISBN 9781541616844
• Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy, Yale University Press, 2021 — ISBN 9780300229264
• True Believer: Hubert Humphrey's Quest for a More Just America, Basic Books, 2024 — ISBN 9781541619579

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