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John Bartlow Martin - A Voice for the Underdog (Hardcover)
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John Bartlow Martin - A Voice for the Underdog (Hardcover)
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During the 1940s and 1950s, one name, John Bartlow Martin,
dominated the pages of the "big slicks," the Saturday Evening Post,
LIFE, Harper's, Look, and Collier's. A former reporter for the
Indianapolis Times, Martin was one of a handful of freelance
writers able to survive solely on this writing. Over a career that
spanned nearly fifty years, his peers lauded him as "the best
living reporter," the "ablest crime reporter in America," and "one
of America's premier seekers of fact." His deep and abiding concern
for the working class, perhaps a result of his upbringing, set him
apart from other reporters. Martin was a key speechwriter and
adviser to the presidential campaigns of many prominent Democrats
from 1950 into the 1970s, including those of Adlai Stevenson, John
F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey,
and George McGovern. He served as U.S. ambassador to the Dominican
Republic during the Kennedy administration and earned a small
measure of fame when FCC Chairman Newton Minow introduced his
description of television as "a vast wasteland" into the nation's
vocabulary.
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