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Sam Tanenhaus (born October 31, 1955) is an American historian, biographer, and journalist. He currently is a writer for Prospect.[1]

Sam Tanenhaus
Born	(1955-10-31) October 31, 1955 (age 66)
Education	B.A., Grinnell College (1977) M.A., Yale University (1978)
Occupation	Writer
Relatives	Michael Tanenhaus (sibling) Beth Tanenhaus Winsten (sibling) David S. Tanenhaus (sibling)

Early years

Tanenhaus received his B.A. in English from Grinnell College in 1977 and a M.A. in English Literature from Yale University in 1978. His siblings include psycholinguist Michael Tanenhaus, filmmaker Beth Tanenhaus Winsten, and legal historian David S. Tanenhaus.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Tanenhaus was an assistant editor at The New York Times from 1997 to 1999, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair from 1999 until 2004. From April 2004[2] to April 2013 he served as the editor of The New York Times Book Review.[3][4][5] He has written many featured articles for that publication, including a 10-year retrospective on the politics of radical centrism.[6] His 1997 biography of Whittaker Chambers won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for both the National Book Award for Nonfiction[7] and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.[8] Since 2019, Tanenhaus has been a visiting professor at St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto, where he virtually teaches courses on American politics and media studies.[9]

Personal life

Tanenhaus formerly lived in Tarrytown, New York with his wife.[10] Currently, he resides in Essex, Connecticut.[11]

Bibliography

• Tanenhaus, Sam (1986). Literature Unbound. Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-33297-0.
• Tanenhaus, Sam (1988). Louis Armstrong. Black Americans of Achievement. Chelsea House Publications. ISBN 0-7910-0221-7.
• Tanenhaus, Sam (1995). Old Greenwich Village: An Architectural Portrait. Gross, Steve (Photographer). Wiley, John & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-14405-3.
• Tanenhaus, Sam (1997). Whittaker Chambers: A Biography. Modern Library. ISBN 0-375-75145-9.
• Tanenhaus, Sam (2009). The Death of Conservatism. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6884-5.

References

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Will the Tea Get Cold? (March 8, 2012 New York Review of Books issue)
• Interview with Sam Tanenhaus from Oxford American
• Sam Tanenhaus's review of "Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen in The New York Times Book Review
• Sam Tanenhaus's review of "Going Rogue" by Sarah Palin in The New Yorker

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