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His book about one family in the French Resistance, ''The Cost of Courage'' (2015) received enthusiastic reviews from ''The Washington Post'',<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/unraveling-a-long-suppressed-mystery-of-french-nazi-resistance/2015/06/19/33af40de-fe64-11e4-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html</ref> ''The Wall Street Journal'',<ref>http://www.wsj.com/articles/pariss-secret-garden-1434494145</ref> and ''The Christian Science Monitor'',<ref>http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2015/0617/The-Cost-of-Courage-profiles-a-heroic-family-of-French-Resistance-fighters</ref> among many other publications. It also won the grand prize at the Paris Book Festival (2015).<ref>http://www.parisbookfestival.com/winners2015.html</ref>
His book about one family in the French Resistance, ''The Cost of Courage'' (2015) received enthusiastic reviews from ''The Washington Post'',<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/unraveling-a-long-suppressed-mystery-of-french-nazi-resistance/2015/06/19/33af40de-fe64-11e4-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html</ref> ''The Wall Street Journal'',<ref>http://www.wsj.com/articles/pariss-secret-garden-1434494145</ref> and ''The Christian Science Monitor'',<ref>http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2015/0617/The-Cost-of-Courage-profiles-a-heroic-family-of-French-Resistance-fighters</ref> among many other publications. It also won the grand prize at the Paris Book Festival (2015).<ref>http://www.parisbookfestival.com/winners2015.html</ref>


His blog about the media, ''Full Court Press'', originated on the website of [[Radar (magazine)|''Radar'' Magazine]] in the fall of 2007. He continued it at the ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]''<ref>http://www.cjr.org/author/charles-kaiser-1/</ref> and the Sidney Hillman Foundation<ref>http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/fullcourtpress</ref> until the spring of 2011.
His blog about the media, ''Full Court Press'', originated on the website of [[Radar (magazine)|''Radar'' Magazine]] in the fall of 2007. He continued it at the ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]''<ref>http://www.cjr.org/author/charles-kaiser-1/</ref> and the Sidney Hillman Foundation<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/fullcourtpress |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-07-26 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100717073906/http://www.hillmanfoundation.org:80/fullcourtpress |archivedate=2010-07-17 |df= }}</ref> until the spring of 2011.


His main interests include modern French history, ''[[The New York Times]]'', torture conducted by the Bush administration,<ref>http://www.cjr.org/full_court_press/winners_sinners_5.php?page=all</ref> [[Politics of the United States|American politics]],<ref>http://charleskaiser.com/fullcourtpress/fcp2.1.html</ref> the [[French Resistance]], [[Bob Dylan]], and [[The Beatles]].<ref>http://charleskaiser.com/harrison.html</ref>
His main interests include modern French history, ''[[The New York Times]]'', torture conducted by the Bush administration,<ref>http://www.cjr.org/full_court_press/winners_sinners_5.php?page=all</ref> [[Politics of the United States|American politics]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://charleskaiser.com/fullcourtpress/fcp2.1.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-02-13 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210164031/http://charleskaiser.com:80/fullcourtpress/fcp2.1.html |archivedate=2009-02-10 |df= }}</ref> the [[French Resistance]], [[Bob Dylan]], and [[The Beatles]].<ref>http://charleskaiser.com/harrison.html</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==
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Charles Kaiser is an American author, journalist and blogger.

His book about one family in the French Resistance, The Cost of Courage (2015) received enthusiastic reviews from The Washington Post,[1] The Wall Street Journal,[2] and The Christian Science Monitor,[3] among many other publications. It also won the grand prize at the Paris Book Festival (2015).[4]

His blog about the media, Full Court Press, originated on the website of Radar Magazine in the fall of 2007. He continued it at the Columbia Journalism Review[5] and the Sidney Hillman Foundation[6] until the spring of 2011.

His main interests include modern French history, The New York Times, torture conducted by the Bush administration,[7] American politics,[8] the French Resistance, Bob Dylan, and The Beatles.[9]

Early life

The son of a diplomat, Philip Mayer Kaiser, he grew up in Washington, D.C., Albany, New York, Dakar, Senegal, London, England and Windsor, Connecticut. He has lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for many years.

Career

Kaiser first started writing for The New York Times when he was an undergraduate at Columbia University. He has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton.

Kaiser is a former reporter for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and a former press critic for Newsweek. He has also written for The Washington Post,[10] the Los Angeles Times,[11] The New York Observer,[12] New York magazine,[13] Vanity Fair, the Columbia Journalism Review, and many other publications.

Works

He is the author of The Cost of Courage, 1968 In America, and The Gay Metropolis. The Gay Metropolis was a Lambda Literary Award winner,[14] as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.[15] He was a memorable guest on the Colbert Report,[16] where he discussed a new edition of The Gay Metropolis. He wrote the afterword for a 2012 edition of Merle Miller's landmark work, On Being Different: What it Means to Be a Homosexual. That afterword was excerpted on the website of the New York Review of Books.[17]

References

  1. ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/unraveling-a-long-suppressed-mystery-of-french-nazi-resistance/2015/06/19/33af40de-fe64-11e4-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html
  2. ^ http://www.wsj.com/articles/pariss-secret-garden-1434494145
  3. ^ http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2015/0617/The-Cost-of-Courage-profiles-a-heroic-family-of-French-Resistance-fighters
  4. ^ http://www.parisbookfestival.com/winners2015.html
  5. ^ http://www.cjr.org/author/charles-kaiser-1/
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-07-17. Retrieved 2010-07-26. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ http://www.cjr.org/full_court_press/winners_sinners_5.php?page=all
  8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-02-10. Retrieved 2009-02-13. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ^ http://charleskaiser.com/harrison.html
  10. ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/21/AR2007112101964.html
  11. ^ http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-kaiser24sep24,0,4792574.story?coll=la-sunday-commentary
  12. ^ http://www.observer.com/node/52226
  13. ^ http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/features/3788/
  14. ^ http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/07/14/lambda-literary-awards-1997/
  15. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/30/books/books-times-offering-cream-half-century-name-brand-gay-life-gossip.html
  16. ^ http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/90418/july-25-2007/intro---7-25-07
  17. ^ http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/sep/25/when-new-york-times-came-out-closet/
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