Herbert Mitgang

Herbert Mitgang (born January 20, 1920, in New York City) is an author, editor, journalist, playwright, and producer of television news documentaries.

Work

During World War II Mitgang served as an army correspondent and became the managing editor of the Oran-Casablanca and Sicily editions of Stars and Stripes. After the war he joined The New York Times as a copy editor and reviewer. From 1955–62 he served as supervising editor of the drama section of the Sunday edition of the Times. He was an editorial writer and member of the Times editorial board in 1963–1964 and again in 1967–1976. From 1964 to 1967 Mitgang was assistant to the president and executive editor of CBS News and produced CBS Reports documentaries including "Sandburg's Prairie Years," "Anthony Eden on Vietnam" and "D-Day Plus 20 Years." He also instructed evening classes in English at City College of New York in 1948–1949 and was a visiting professor at Yale University in 1975-1976. From 1948 to 1949 he was a member of the executive board of the Newspaper Guild of New York and the CIO. He has been a longtime member and has served as president of both the Authors League and the Authors Guild. He is a Fellow of the Society of American Historians and a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. Mitgang has contributed freelance articles to magazines, written several novels and biographies and edited several books. His papers are in the collection of the New York Public Library.^[1]

As an octogenarian, Herbert Mitgang was one of the named plaintiffs in the controversial case "Authors Guild vs. Google" (2005), the purpose of which was to prevent Google from providing a complete searchable index of extant literature.

Books

• Lincoln: As They Saw Him (1956) ASIN B000RQENP0
• Civilians Under Arms: The American Soldier - Civil War to Korea - As He Revealed Himself In His Words In the Stars and Stripes, Army Newspaper (Ed.) (1959) ASIN B000R0HKS8
• The Return (1960) ASIN B000KBJCFI
• The Letters of Carl Sandburg. (Ed.) (1968) ASIN B0016KMQ0K
• America at Random (1970) ASIN B000SATTOK
• The Man Who Rode The Tiger The Life And Times of Judge Samuel Seabury (1970) ASIN B000PV42I0
• Working for the Reader: Culture, Literature, War and Politics in Books from the 1950s to the Present (1970) ISBN 978-0818011559
• Get These Men Out of the Hot Sun (1972)
• The Fiery Trial - a Life of Lincoln (1974) ASIN B000HKOFYA
• Lincoln, As They Saw Him: His Life and Times from the Original Newspaper Documents of the Union, the Confederacy, and Europe (1979) ISBN 978-0374958015
• The Montauk Fault. A Novel. (1982) ISBN 978-0345303783
• Combat World War II: European (European Theater of Operations) (1983) ISBN 978-0877954576
• Spectator of America, with Edward Dicey (1989) ISBN 978-0820311722
• Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors (1991) ISBN 978-0517074749
• Selected Writings of Abraham Lincoln (1992) ISBN 978-0553214079
• The Letters of Carl Sandburg (Ed.) (2002) ISBN 978-0762822553
• Once Upon a Time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt,and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age (2004) ISBN 978-0815412632
• Newsmen in Khaki: Tales of a World War II Soldier-Correspondent (2004) ISBN 978-1589790940

External links

• Audio interview with Herbert Mitgang (1988)
• Israeli Mosaics (The Atlantic Monthly, August 1966)
• Victory in the Ashes of Vietnam? (The New York Times, February 4, 1969)
• Books of The Times; Americans as America's Own Worst Enemy (The New York Times, January 2, 1992)
• Herbert Mitgang at the Internet Movie Database

References