DuncanCrary (talk | contribs) ←Created page with '{{Userspace draft|source=ArticleWizard|date={{Subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{Subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}} {{Subst:Nul|<==do not change this line it will set the date automatic...' |
GimliDotNet (talk | contribs) tagging |
||
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Primary Sources}} |
|||
{{Userspace draft|source=ArticleWizard|date=February 2011}} |
|||
'''New article name''' new article content ... |
|||
'''Peter Golden''' (born in 1953, [[Newark, New Jersey]]) is an American [[author]], [[historian]], [[journalist]], and [[blog]]ger. He is the author of 6 full-length works of non-fiction and fiction. He is best known for his writings on the [[Cold War]] and his interviews with [[World Leaders]]. |
'''Peter Golden''' (born in 1953, [[Newark, New Jersey]]) is an American [[author]], [[historian]], [[journalist]], and [[blog]]ger. He is the author of 6 full-length works of non-fiction and fiction. He is best known for his writings on the [[Cold War]] and his interviews with [[World Leaders]]. |
||
Line 83: | Line 80: | ||
== References == |
== References == |
||
<!--- See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes on how to create references using <ref></ref> tags which will then appear here automatically --> |
|||
{{Reflist}} |
{{Reflist}} |
||
== External links == |
|||
* [http://www.example.com/ example.com] |
|||
Revision as of 21:09, 7 February 2011
Peter Golden (born in 1953, Newark, New Jersey) is an American author, historian, journalist, and blogger. He is the author of 6 full-length works of non-fiction and fiction. He is best known for his writings on the Cold War and his interviews with World Leaders.
Background
Golden was born in Newark, New Jersey to Jewish parents. He lived in Stuyvesant Village in Union, New Jersey. He moved to South Orange, New Jersey in 1954,where he attended Clinton School and South Orange Junior High School then moved to Maplewood and graduated from Columbia High School. He attended Ohio University for two years then transferred to SUNY Albany, where he graduated with a BA in Philosophy in 1975.[1] At age 30 he moved to California and began writing novels and children's books. Between 1984 and 1986, Golden designed and wrote seven novels-for-computers as part of a joint venture between Imagic and Bantam Books. [2]
He is married to Annis Golden, a communications professor at University at Albany. He has one son, Ben Golden.[1] He serves as a Board of Education Member in the Guilderland Central School District. [3]
Writing
His 1992 book Quiet Diplomat, a biography of industrialist and political insider Max M. Fisher, made the Detroit Free Press best seller list. [4] In 2000, Golden co-wrote a memoir called I Rest My Case, chronicling the life of J. Stanley Shaw, one of the preeminent bankruptcy attorneys in the United States.
His writings have appeared in Detroit Free Press Magazine, New Jersey Monthly, Microsoft eDirections, Beyond Computing, The Forward, and Capital Magazine.[4]
His blog, titled Boardside: Dispatches from the Education Wars, is an online diary about his experiences as Board of Education member in the Guilderland Central School District [3]
Golden has interviewed the following notable world leaders: [5] [2]
- U.S. President Richard Nixon
- U.S. President Gerald Ford, Jr.
- U.S. President Ronald Reagan
- U.S. President George H.W. Bush
- U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev
- U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
- U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig
- U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz
- U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger
- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
- Israeli President & Prime Minister Shimon Peres
- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
His history of the Cold War titled O Powerful Western Star will be published next fall.[6]
Reactions and Criticisms
Writing for Commentary magazine, Leonard Garment, former special counsel to President Richard Nixon, described Golden's Quiet Diplomat as a a “meticulously researched and gracefully written book” that “gives us a concrete view of the emergence of American Jews into the mainstream of national politics since World War II.” [7]
Writing for The Jerusalem Report, J.J. Goldberg called Golden’s Quiet Diplomat “a disturbing, challenging book. It suggests, without answering, a wide range of questions about the relationship between the American Jewish community and its ‘leadership,’ and between the Diaspora community and the state of Israel. What is the Jewish community’s role in U.S.-Israel relations? Can Israel trust representatives over whom it has no control? Whom do these “Jewish leaders” represent? In the end, Fisher and [Peter Golden] leave their readers free to draw their own conclusions.”[8]
In a review of Golden’s 2010 Comeback Love novel, Siobhan Connally of The Record (Troy) said “Golden has crafted a remarkable story about how we arrive at the right place even when our direction seems wrong.”[6]
Criticizing Golden’s Boardside blog, Guilderland Central School District Board Vice President told the Times Union (Albany) that the website was inappropriate and that “It shows a lack of respect for others on the board.” [3]
Awards Honors
In 1989 Golden won the New York State Bar Association’s Media Award for a critical profile he wrote of Jude Joseph Harris.[2]
In 1999, his story on the Micron Computer company won a Silver Award in the 21st annual competition for writing excellence from the American Society of Business Press Editors.[2]
In 2007, Golden was appointed to the Academic Advisory Council (AAC) of the American Jewish Historical Society’s Soviet Jewry project.[2]
Quotations
On the most lasting change resulting from the Cold War:
“...you can no longer find the Soviet Union on a map, but men and women are still trying to work things out.”[6]
Bibliography
Nonfiction
|
Novels
|
References
- ^ a b Smith, Bea. "Author has written his first love story" Worrall Community Newspapers, Dec. 2, 2010 Cite error: The named reference "Worrall" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ a b c d e Golden, Peter. "Peter Golden Curriculum Vitae 11-2010". Peter Golden. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
- ^ a b c Waldman, Scott. "An insider's view of a school board: Blog gives Guilderland's Peter Golden a platform to comment on education" Times Union (Albany), Page C1 July. 8, 2007 Cite error: The named reference "ScottWaldmanTU" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ a b Golden, Peter. "Peter Golden Home Page". Peter Golden. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
- ^ Golden, Peter. "Peter Golden Interviews With World Leaders". Peter Golden. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
- ^ a b c Connally, Siobhan. "Five Questions for Jan. 18, 2011: Peter Golden" The Record (Troy), Jan 18, 2011 Cite error: The named reference "5Q" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Garment, Leonard. "Mediator" Commentary Feb. 1993. P 58 - 61.
- ^ Goldberg, J.J. “Fisher’s Tale” The Jerusalem Report Sep 24, 1992 pp. 46.