Max frankel actor
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"Must-reading for journalists and history buffs alike...a behind-the-scenes look at the inner sanctum of one of the world's mightiest newspapers, and the power plays and strong personalities that fueled the Cold War from beginning to end."
--The Dallas Morning News
"Gripping reading."
--The New York Times
"A fascinating chronicle...Intriguing...Illuminating...Frankel's memoirs illuminate the second half of the 20th century."
--Chicago Tribune
"Remarkably well-written and earnest...deserves to be widely read...it has much in common with Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, which also describes the immigrant experience of overcoming hardship and becoming an American."
--Associated Press
"Superb....This memoir is one of the most elegant ever composed by a newspaperman. It's a smart, tough, scrupulous book."
--The New York Times Book Review
"A wonderful read, vigorous, personal, and passionate."
--The Rocky Mountain News, Denver
when Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Max Frankel began to write for The New York Times, readers have looked to his work as a lens through which they could w
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Max Frankel’s Life and Times
For more than three decades, ever since serving as The Times’s campus stringer at Columbia University and then landing a job as a Times reporter in 1952, Frankel had marched methodically toward the top editorial post. The road to the top was rocky. In his memoir he describes in riveting detail how he and his mother escaped the Nazi horrors by fleeing to America. And in fascinating—though less gripping—detail, he tells of winning and losing battles in The Times’s legendary bureaucratic wars.
An only child, Frankel and his parents were members of a tiny Jewish minority in Weissenfels, a manufacturing town and minor railroad hub for central Germany. He wrote that he was not yet three years old when Adolph Hitler rose to power in 1933 and he “could have become
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Max Frankel
Max Frankel was born in Gera, Germany, but he and his family fled Nazi Germany in 1938. They crossed into the Soviet Union, where Jacob Frankel, his father, was arrested on suspicion of being a German spy and was given the choice of Soviet citizenship or a sentence of hard labor in Siberia. Because the family's intention was to reach the United States, Jacob refused citizenship and was sent to Siberia. Mary Frankel and her son Max arrived in the United States in 1940 and settled in New York City, where Jacob joined them after the war. Max had decided on a journalism career by the time he entered Columbia College, where he became editor of The Spectator, the student newspaper, and campus correspondent for The New York Times. He graduated from Columbia as a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1952 and earned a master's degree in American government from Columbia the following year.
As chief of the Washington bureau of The New York Times, Frankel wrote analyses of Washington and foreign affairs. He won the George Polk Memorial Award for "best daily newspaper interpretatio
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