Joseph Alsop

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Joseph Alsop V (October 11, 1910 – August 28, 1989) was an American journalist and syndicated newspaper columnist from the 1930s through the 1970s.

Alsop was the son of Joseph Wright Alsop IV (1876-1953) and his wife Corinne Douglas Robinson (1886-1971). He was the brother of Stewart Alsop, with whom he wrote a joint newspaper column for decades. He was a close relative of both Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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• Alsop, Joseph W. with Adam Platt. "I've Seen the Best of It": Memoirs. New York : W. W. Norton, 1992.