Max Holland

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Max Holland (born 1950, Providence, Rhode Island) is an American journalist, author, and the editor of Washington Decoded, an internet newsletter on US history 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 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: Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat (University Press of Kansas, 2012);[1] 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 2011, he was the lead consultant for a National Geographic Television documentary about the Kennedy assassination that premiered in November 2011, entitled JFK: The Lost Bullet. The findings of the documentary were summarized in The DeRonja-Holland Report.

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,[2] 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. Holland lives in Washington, DC.

Holland is a 1972 graduate of Antioch College.[3]

Awards and fellowships edit

Selected publications edit

Articles edit

Biography of John J. McCloy.

Books edit

  • When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America. Boston, Ma.: Harvard Business School Press (1989). ISBN 0875842445, 978-0875842448.
  • The CEO Goes to Washington: Negotiating the Halls of Power. Knoxville, Tenn.: Whittle Direct Books (1994). ISBN 1879736209, 978-1879736207.
  • From Industry to Alchemy: Burgmaster, A Machine Tool Company. Washington, D.C.: Beard Books (2002). ISBN 158798153X, 978-1587981531.
  • 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 (Sep. 2004). ISBN 1400042380, 978-1400042388.
  • Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas (Mar. 2012). ISBN 0700618295, 978-0700618293.
  • Blind Over Cuba: The Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press (2012). ISBN 1603447687, 978-1603447683.

References edit

  1. ^ "Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat". University Press of Kansas. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  2. ^ "The J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards". Columbia Journalism School. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  3. ^ Holland, Max. "Vita". www.maxholland.info. Max Holland. Retrieved March 27, 2015.

Works cited edit

  • "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]

External links edit

  • Official website
  • Max Holland at IMDb
  • Washington Decoded
  • Appearances on C-SPAN