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Jules Joseph Witcover (born July 16, 1927) is an American journalist, author, and columnist. Witcover is a veteran newspaperman of 50 years' standing, having written for ''The Baltimore Sun'', the now-defunct ''Washington Star'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', and ''The Washington Post''.〔()〕 Together with Jack Germond, Witcover co-wrote "Politics Today," a five-day-a-week syndicated column, for over 24 years. Witcover was born in Union City, New Jersey. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, author and H.L. Mencken scholar Marion Elizabeth Rodgers. Witcover began working in Washington for Newhouse Newspapers in 1954. He was reportedly steps away from where Robert F. Kennedy was shot in 1968. He was also one of the reporters featured in the 1972 book on campaign journalism, ''The Boys on the Bus'', and eventually came to be seen as a "journalistic institution," according to media critic Howard Kurtz. His most recent book is ''The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power.'' Published in 2014, Kirkus Reviews described the work as a “valuable book of American history.” Other recent work includes ''Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Nixon & Agnew'', Public Affairs (2007), 〔()〕 and ''Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption''. In March 2008, his history of campaign finance reform, "The Longest Campaign," appeared on the Center for Public Integrity's ''The Buying of the President 2008'' website.〔()〕 Witcover assumed the mantle of Theodore H. White, producing the definitive chronicle of the 1976 presidential campaign, ''Marathon'', and then following with books on every contest from 1980 through 1992 (these four co-authored with Jack W. Germond). In the 1990s and 2000s, he became increasingly preoccupied with the mechanics of national campaigns—authoring works on the Vice Presidency, political consultants and fundraising—as well as political history and biography. == Books written with Germond == ''Blue Smoke & Mirrors: How Reagan Won and Why Carter Lost the Election of 1980'', Viking Press (1981) ''Wake Us When It's Over: Presidential Politics of 1984'', Macmillan (1985) ''Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars? The Trivial Pursuit of the Presidency 1988'', Warner Books (1989) ''Mad As Hell: Revolt at the Ballot Box 1992'', Warner Books (1992) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jules Witcover」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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