Richard Reeves

Richard Reeves is a writer, columnist, and Senior Lecturer at the Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. He has written many presidential biographies including President Kennedy: Profile of Power, which was honored by Time magazine as the Best Non-Fiction Book of 1993, President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination, and his most recent book, Portrait of Camelot: A Thousand Days in the Kennedy White House, released in 2010.

Articles by this Author

My Years with Ronald Reagan, February/March 2006 | Vol. 57, No. 1

What a skeptical biographer discovered about a very elusive subject

The Books That Mean the Most to Me, November/December 2004 | Vol. 55, No. 6

Why G.W. Bush's Executive Order 13233 Must Not Stand, August/September 2002 | Vol. 53, No. 4

A recent presidential edict will make it harder for historians to practice their trade.

Coya Knutson: The Woman of the Century, December 1998 | Vol. 49, No. 8

You’ve likely never heard of her.

Presidential Scandal, May/June 1998 | Vol. 49, No. 3

I’m Sorry, Mr. President, December 1996 | Vol. 47, No. 8

A VETERAN JOURNALIST reflects on how public discourse has been tarnished by the press’s relentless war against presidents, including his own biggest offense.

1954, December 1994 | Vol. 45, No. 8

America looked good to a high school senior then, and that year looks wonderfully safe to us now, but it was a time of tumult, and there were plenty of shadows, along with the sunshine.

My Six Years with JFK, November 1993 | Vol. 44, No. 7

Living with an endlessly vexing and compelling President thirty years after Dallas

“The Lines of Control Have Been Cut”, September 1993 | Vol. 44, No. 5

Jack Kennedy came into the White House determined to dismantle his Republican predecessor’s rigid, formal staff organization, in favor of a spontaneous, flexible, hands-on management style. Thirty years later, Bill Clinton seems determined to do the same thing. He would do well to remember that what it got JFK was the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam War.

The Paris Tribune At One Hundred, November 1987 | Vol. 38, No. 7

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