fiction.wikisort.org - WriterClark R. Mollenhoff (April 16, 1921 – March 2, 1991) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist, an attorney who served as Presidential Special Counsel, and a columnist for The Des Moines Register.
American journalist, author, and Presidential Counsel (1921–1991)
Life and career
Born in Burnside, Iowa on April 16, 1921, to Margaret and Raymond E. Mollenhoff, Clark R. Mollenhoff graduated from high school in Webster City, Iowa. He began working for The Des Moines Register in 1942 while attending Drake University law school, from which he graduated in 1944. Mollenhoff then served two years in the U.S. Navy before returning to the Register.[1]
In 1958 Mollenhoff won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, for a series exposing racketeering and fraud in the Teamsters Union. His work led to a successful crack-down on corruption within the Teamsters.[1]
In 1959 he received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College.
Eisenhower Fellowships selected Mollenhoff as a USA Eisenhower Fellow in 1960.
In 1965, Mollenhoff published Despoilers of Democracy, which provided details of corruption associated with Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (before he became president), in particular the Billie Sol Estes swindles and the TFX scandal of 1963, investigation into which was suspended after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
In 1969 he served for a year as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon, after which he became the Register's Washington bureau chief.[1]
In 1977 Mollenhoff became a professor at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia while continuing to write a column for the Register.[1]
In 1988 he wrote a biography of John Vincent Atanasoff, the Iowa State College professor who invented the first electronic digital computer in 1939. Mollenhoff's book gives the Atanasoff perspective of the 1973 federal court decision of Honeywell v. Sperry Rand that ruled the ENIAC computer patent invalid, and drew attention to Atanasoff's work.[2]
Mollenhoff wrote twelve books and won many additional awards.
While living in Lexington, Virginia, Clark R. Mollenhoff died of cancer on March 2, 1991 at the age of 69.
The Clark Mollenhoff Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting is awarded annually by the Institute on Political Journalism for the best investigative journalism article in a newspaper or magazine.[3]
Books
- Washington Cover-Up: How Bureaucratic Secrecy Promotes Corruption and Waste in the Federal Government (1962), Doubleday. ISBN 0548443475 (2007 edition)
- Tentacles of Power: The Story of Jimmy Hoffa (1965), World Publishing
- Despoilers of Democracy: The real story of what Washington propagandists, arrogant bureaucrats, mismanagers, influence peddlers, and outright corrupters are doing to our Federal Government (1965), Doubleday
- The Pentagon: Politics, Profits and Plunder (1967), G.P. Putnam's Sons
- George Romney: Mormon in Politics (1968), Meredith Press
- Strike Force: Organized Crime and the Government (1972), Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-852772-5
- The Man Who Pardoned Nixon (1976), The K.S. Giniger Company, Inc., ISBN 978-0-900997-89-1
- Game Plan for Disaster (1976), W.W. Norton & Co., ISBN 0-393-05543-4
- The President Who Failed: Carter out of Control (1980), Free Press, ISBN 0-02-921750-4
- Investigative Reporting: From Courthouse to White House (1981), Macmillan, ISBN 0-02-381870-0
- Atanasoff: Forgotten Father of the Computer. Ames, IOWA: Iowa State University Press. 1988. ISBN 0-8138-0032-3. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
- Ballad to an Iowa Farmer: and Other Reflections (1991), Iowa State University Press ISBN 0-8138-1458-8
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting |
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As Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting – National (1942–1947) |
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1942–1947 | |
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As Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (1948-present) |
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1948–1949 |
- Bert Andrews (1948 shared)
- Nat S. Finney (1948 shared)
- C. P. Trussell (1949)
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1950–1959 | |
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1960–1969 | |
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1970–1979 |
- William J. Eaton (1970)
- Lucinda Franks (1971)
- Jack Anderson (1972)
- Robert Boyd (1973 shared)
- Clark Hoyt (1973 shared)
- Jack White (1974 shared)
- James R. Polk (1974 shared)
- Donald L. Barlett (1975 shared)
- James B. Steele (1975 shared)
- James V. Risser (1976)
- Walter Mears (1977)
- Gaylord D. Shaw (1978)
- James V. Risser (1979)
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1980–1989 |
- Bette Swenson Orsini (1980 shared)
- Charles Stafford (1980 shared)
- John M. Crewdson (1981)
- Rick Atkinson (1982)
- The Boston Globe (1983)
- John Noble Wilford (1984)
- Thomas J. Knudson (1985)
- Craig Flournoy (1986 shared)
- George Rodrigues (1986 shared)
- Arthur Howe (1986 shared)
- Staff of The Miami Herald (1987 shared)
- Staff of The New York Times (1987 shared)
- Tim Weiner (1988)
- Donald L. Barlett (1989 shared)
- James B. Steele (1989 shared)
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1990–1999 |
- Ross Anderson (1990 shared)
- Bill Dietrich (1990 shared)
- Mary Ann Gwinn (1990 shared)
- Eric Nalder (1990 shared)
- Marjie Lundstrom (1991 shared)
- Rochelle Sharpe (1991 shared)
- Gannett News Service (1991 shared)
- Jeff Taylor (1992 shared)
- Mike McGraw (1992 shared)
- The Kansas City Star (1992 shared)
- David Maraniss (1993)
- Eileen Welsome (1994)
- Tony Horwitz (1995)
- Alix M. Freedman (1996)
- Staff of The Wall Street Journal (1997)
- Russell Carollo (1998 shared)
- Jeff Nesmith (1998 shared)
- Staff of The New York Times (1999)
- Jeff Gerth (1999)
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2000–2009 |
- Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2000)
- Staff of The New York Times (2001)
- Staff of The Washington Post (2002)
- Alan Miller (2003 shared)
- Kevin Sack (2003 shared)
- Staff of Los Angeles Times (2004 shared)
- Walt Bogdanich (2005)
- James Risen (2006 shared)
- Eric Lichtblau (2006 shared)
- Staff of The San Diego Union-Tribune (2006 shared)
- Staff of Copley News Service (2006 shared)
- Marcus Stern (2006 shared)
- Jerry Kammer (2006 shared)
- Charlie Savage (2007)
- Jo Becker (2008 shared)
- Barton Gellman (2008 shared)
- Staff of St. Petersburg Times (2009)
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2010–2020 |
- Matt Richtel (2010 shared)
- Staff of The New York Times (2010 shared)
- Jesse Eisinger (2011 shared)
- Jake Bernstein (2011 shared)
- David Wood (2012)
- Lisa Song (2013 shared)
- Elizabeth McGowan (2013 shared)
- David Hasemyer (2013 shared)
- David Philipps (2014)
- Carol D. Leonnig (2015)
- Staff of The Washington Post (2016)
- David Fahrenthold (2017)
- Staff of The New York Times (2018 shared)
- Staff of The Washington Post (2018 shared)
- Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2019)
- Dominic Gates, Steve Miletich, Mike Baker and Lewis Kamb of The Seattle Times, T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faurtechi of ProPublica (2020 shared)
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- Steve Filipowicz
- Dewey Proctor
- Val Culwell
- Jim Reynolds
- Lou Palazzi
- Larry Visnic
- Doyle Caraway
- Bill Piccolo
- Glenn Knox
- Walt Domina
- Don McCafferty
- Jay Stoves
- Howard Currie
- N.A. Keithley
- Jack Lister
- Dwight Holshouser
- Jim Lushine
- Veto Berllus
- Fred Marshall
- John Korczowski
- Gene Hoeman
- Keith Beebe
- Dave Brown
- Maurice Hail
- Ed McNamara
- Dick Drake
- Stan Ritinski
- Clark Mollenhoff
- Verlin Adams
- Bob Brundage
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