Michael D'Antonio
Michael D'Antonio (born May 11, 1955)[1] is an American author, journalist, and commentator on CNN. He shared the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting with a team of Newsday reporters for their coverage of the Baby Jane Doe Case. He has written over a dozen books, including Never Enough, a 2015 biography of Donald Trump, and A Consequential President, a 2017 book on the Presidency of Barack Obama.[2] His book Mortal Sins was a 2014 Edgar Award nominee.[3]
D'Antonio was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1977.[1] He wrote for the Dover Democrat in New Hampshire from 1976 to 1977, and the Portland Press Herald in Maine from 1977 to 1983 before joining Newsday as a writer, where he worked from 1983 to 1990. He was also a contributing editor to Child magazine.[1]
Books
[edit]- Fall From Grace: The Failed Crusade of the Christian Right (1990)
- Heaven on Earth: Dispatches From America's Spiritual Frontier (1992)
- Atomic Harvest: Hanford and the Lethal Toll of America's Nuclear Arsenal (1993)
- The Best Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and the Covenant of Caring (with Mike Magee) (1999)
- Tin Cup Dreams: A Long Shot Makes it on the PGA Tour (2000)
- The Fourth Mega-Market, Now Through 2011 (with Ralph Acampora) (2000)
- Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe (with Andrew Spielman) (2001)
- Tour '72: Nicklaus, Palmer, Player, Trevino; The Story of One Great Season (2002).
- Fun While It Lasted: My Rise and Fall in the Land of Fame and Fortune (with Bruce McNall) (2003)
- The State Boys Rebellion (2004)
- Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams (2006)
- A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957 – The Space Race Begins (2007)
- Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O’Malley, Baseball’s Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles (2009)
- A Full Cup: Sir Thomas Lipton's Extraordinary Life and His Quest for the America’s Cup (2010)
- Spend Shift: How the Post-Crisis Values Revolution Is Changing the Way We Buy, Sell, and Live (with John Gerzema) (2010)
- The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future (with John Gerzema) (2013)
- Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal (2013)
- Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success (2015) (reprinted as The Truth About Trump, 2016)
- A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama (2017)
- The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence (with Peter Eisner) (2018)
- The Hunting of Hillary: The Forty-Year Campaign to Destroy Hillary Clinton (2020)
- High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (with Peter Eisner) (2020)
- Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country (with Adam Kinzinger) 2023
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Olendorf, Donna, ed. (1993). "D'Antonio, Michael". Contemporary Authors. Vol. 140. Gale Research Inc. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-8103-1971-3.
- ^ Porch, Scott (January 20, 2018). "Tallying the facts of Obama's economic legacy". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ "Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2014 Edgar Award Nominations". www.prnewswire.com. January 16, 2014.
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