John Aloysius Farrell
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John Aloysius Farrell is an award-winning investigative reporter who works at The Center for Public Integrity. He is a former White House correspondent and Washington editor for The Boston Globe
and a former Washington bureau chief and columnist for The Denver Post
. He is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century and Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow, which will be published by Doubleday in June, 2011.
Born in Huntington, New York, Farrell graduated from the University of Virginia in 1975 before working at newspapers in Montgomery County, Annapolis and Baltimore, Maryland. He was part of a team that won a George Polk award at The Denver Post, and he has received the Gerald Ford and Aldo Beckman prizes for his White House coverage, and the Raymond Clapper award for Washington reporting while at The Boston Globe. His book on Tip O'Neill won the Hardeman prize from the Lyndon B. Johnson presidential library for the year's best book on Congress.
Excerpts of his work have been published in Jack Beatty's collection Pols: Great Writers on American Politicians from Bryan to Reagan, and in Leadership for the Public Service by Richard A. Loverd. Farrell was a contributor, as well, to The Boston Globes 2004 biography of U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry.
Farrell is an on-camera commentator in the PBS "American Experience" documentary Jimmy Carter, and the television series The Irish in America.
Read about John A. Farrell
Read an excerpt from Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned
Read an interview with John A. Farrell in Brian Lamb's Booknotes: Stories from American History; Leading Historians on the Events That Shaped Our Country
The Boston Globe
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and a former Washington bureau chief and columnist for The Denver Post
The Denver Post
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. He is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century and Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow, which will be published by Doubleday in June, 2011.
Born in Huntington, New York, Farrell graduated from the University of Virginia in 1975 before working at newspapers in Montgomery County, Annapolis and Baltimore, Maryland. He was part of a team that won a George Polk award at The Denver Post, and he has received the Gerald Ford and Aldo Beckman prizes for his White House coverage, and the Raymond Clapper award for Washington reporting while at The Boston Globe. His book on Tip O'Neill won the Hardeman prize from the Lyndon B. Johnson presidential library for the year's best book on Congress.
Excerpts of his work have been published in Jack Beatty's collection Pols: Great Writers on American Politicians from Bryan to Reagan, and in Leadership for the Public Service by Richard A. Loverd. Farrell was a contributor, as well, to The Boston Globes 2004 biography of U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry.
Farrell is an on-camera commentator in the PBS "American Experience" documentary Jimmy Carter, and the television series The Irish in America.
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Read a chapter from "Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century"Read about John A. Farrell
Read an excerpt from Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned
Read an interview with John A. Farrell in Brian Lamb's Booknotes: Stories from American History; Leading Historians on the Events That Shaped Our Country