Max Holland

Max Holland (born 1950, in Providence, Rhode Island) is a journalist, author, and the editor of Washington Decoded, an online newsletter from the nation's capital that began publishing March 11, 2007. He is currently a contributing editor to The Nation and The Wilson Quarterly, and sits on the editorial advisory board of the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. As of 2004 he had had more than two decades of journalism experience; his articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, American Heritage, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, Studies in Intelligence, the Journal of Cold War Studies, Reviews in American History, and online at History News Network.

Holland's published books include: The Kennedy Assassination Tapes: The White House Conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson Regarding the Assassination, the Warren Commission, and the Aftermath (Knopf, 2004); The CEO Goes to Washington: Negotiating the Halls of Power (Whittle Direct Books, 1994); and When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America (Harvard Business School Press, 1989).

In 2001, Holland won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, bestowed jointly by Harvard University's Nieman Foundation and the Columbia University School of Journalism, for a forthcoming narrative history of the Warren Commission, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf. That same year he won a Studies in Intelligence Award from the Central Intelligence Agency, the first writer working outside the U.S. government to be so recognized. Mr. Holland lives in Washington, DC.

Contents 1 Awards and Fellowships 2 Select Publications 2.1 Books 2.2 Journal Articles 2.3 Periodicals 3 Online Publications 4 Works cited 5 External links

Awards and Fellowships

• Moody Research Grant, Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation, Austin, TX, 2004
• Studies in Intelligence Award, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA, 2001
• J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, Columbia University School of Journalism/ Harvard University Nieman Foundation, 2001
• Fellowship, John Nicolas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization, Brown University, Providence, PI, 1998
• Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, 1991
• Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC, 1990

Select Publications

Books

• The Kennedy Assassination Tapes: The White House Conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson Regarding the Assassination, the Warren Commission, and the Aftermath (New York: Alfred Knopf, September 2004)
• From Industry to Alchemy: Burgmaster, A Machine Tool Company (Washington, DC: Beard Books, 2002)
• The CEO Goes to Washington: Negotiating the Halls of Power (Knoxville, TN: Whittle Direct Books, 1994)
• When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1989) [see citation template]

Journal Articles

• I. F. Stone: Encounters with Soviet IntelligenceJournal of Cold War Studies, Volume 11, Number 3, Summer 2009
• "Politics and Intelligence: The 'Photo Gap' that Delayed Discovery of Missiles in Cuba," Studies in Intelligence, Volume 49, Number 4, Winter 2005
• "A Cold War Odyssey: The Oswald File," Cold War International History Project Bulletin, Issue 14/15, Winter 2003-Spring 2004
• "The Power of Disinformation: The Lie that Linked CIA to the Kennedy Assassination," Studies in Intelligence, Number 11, Fall-Winter 2001
• "After Thirty Years: Making Sense of the Assassination," Reviews in American History, Volume 22, Number 2, June 1994

Periodicals

• "Unmasking the Other Deep Throat," Washingtonian, November 2009
• "Five Best Books on the Conspiracy Mindset," The Wall Street Journal, 2–3 February 2008
• "JFK's Death, Re-Framed," The New York Times, 22 November 2007 (with Johann Rush)
• "Assassination Chronicle," The Wall Street Journal, 19–20 May 2007
• "The JFK Lawyers' Conspiracy," The Nation, 20 February 2006
• "The Making of a Washington Expert," The Washington Spectator, 1 November 2005
• "The Politics (and Profits) of Information: The 9/11 Commission One Year Later," The Washington Spectator, 1 November 2005
• "The Assassination Tapes," The Atlantic Monthly, June 2004
• "How Moscow Undermined the Warren Commission," The Washington Post, 22 November 2003
• "Was Jim Garrison Duped by the KGB?" New Orleans, February 2002
• "The Demon in Jim Garrison," Wilson Quarterly, Spring 2001
• "Tapes: Hearing a Wrong Leaning, er, Meaning," Los Angeles Times, 1 August 1999
• "The Docudrama That Is JFK," The Nation, 7 December 1998
• "Getting Closer to the Truth About the Death of JFK: Why RFK Shunned the Inquiry Into His Brother's Assassination," The Boston Globe, 18 September 1998
• "The Key to the Warren Report," American Heritage, November 1995
• "Cuba, Kennedy, and the Cold War," The Nation, 29 November 1993
• "Greed is All Right," The Nation, 16 December 1991
• "How to Kill a Company: Anatomy of a Leveraged Buyout," The Washington Post, 23 April 1989

Online Publications

• "Richard Nixon's Own Deep Throat," Washington Decoded, 3 November 2009
• "The Vanity of Vanity Fair," Washington Decoded, 11 October 2009
• "Why Did I.F. Stone Sidestep the Hiss Case?," Washington Decoded, 11 July 2009
• "The Politics of Postmortems," Washington Decoded, 11 February 2009
• "The Underwood Hoax," Washington Decoded, 11 December 2008
• "11 Seconds in Dallas Redux: Film Evidence," Washington Decoded, 11 November 2008 (with Kenneth Scearce)
• "The Politics of Association: Ayers vs. Kravis," Washington Decoded, 11 October 2008
• "The Secret That Wasn't: Deep Throat Exposed in 1973," Washington Decoded, 11 September 2008
• "The Ford Files," Washington Decoded, 11 August 2008
• "Harvard Does Dallas," Washington Decoded, 11 April 2008
• "Civics Lesson," Washington Decoded, 11 February 2008
• "Commission Confidential," Washington Decoded,30 January 2008
• "Doubt and Disbelief in the Warren Report," Washington Decoded, 11 January 2008
• "Credit Where Credit is Due," Washington Decoded, 11 December 2007
• "What Oswald Wrought: Lament of a Generation," Washington Decoded, 11 November 2007
• "What Did Lyndon Johnson Know About the Cuban Missile Crisis? And When Did He Know It?" Washington Decoded, 19 October 2007 (with Tara Marie Egan)
• "Deep Throat 3.0," Washington Decoded, 11 May 2007 (with William Gaines)
• "11 Seconds in Dallas, Not Six," Washington Decoded, 11 March 2007 (with Johann W. Rush)
• "1963: 11 Seconds in Dallas," History News Network, 19 February 2007 (with Johann W. Rush)
• "Presidential Tapes and Transcripts: Crafting a New Historical Genre," History News Network, 21 February 2005 (with Sheldon Stern)

Works cited

• "Max Holland." Contemporary Authors Online. 2006. Biography Resource Center. Thomson Gale. 25 Sep. 2006 [1]
• "Random House: Authors: Max Holland." Random House. 2006. Random House, Inc.. 19 Sep 2006. [2]
• Washington Decoded

External links

• Washington Decoded
• The Nation
• The Wilson Quarterly

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Name	Holland, Max
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Short description	Journalist and author
Date of birth	1950
Place of birth	Providence, Rhode Island
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