Terry Golway is a historian, author, and a journalist, having served as a columnist and editorial board member for ''

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'' and a long-time editor and writer at ''

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''.

Career

In 2010 Golway discovered a historic early census count predating the creation of the United States at

Liberty Hall Liberty Hall ( ga, Halla na Saoirse), in Dublin, Ireland, is the headquarters of the Services, Industrial, Professional, and Technical Union (SIPTU). Designed by Desmond Rea O'Kelly, it was completed in 1965. It was for a time the tallest b ...

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at Kean. He is the author of several books on American and Irish history. Golway's book on

John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination ...

, ''JFK: Day by Day'', was made into an

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app to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's inauguration. Golway is an occasional op-ed columnist for ''The New York Times'', where he was once a member of the editorial board. Previously, he spent two decades at ''

''. he still writes periodic pieces for the “pink paper of lore” (''The New York Observer''); he served as a political reporter, city editor and columnist for that paper in earlier years.

Books authored

*''JFK: Day by Day: A Chronicle of the 1,036 Days of

's Presidency'' *''Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution'' *''Give 'Em Hell: The Tumultuous Years of Harry Truman's Presidency, in His Own Words'' *''Ronald Reagan's America: His Voice, His Dreams, and His Vision of Tomorrow'' *''So Others Might Live: A History of New York's Bravest'' *''Together We Cannot Fail: FDR and the American Presidency in Years of Crisis'' *''Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America's Fight for Ireland's Freedom'' *''Full of Grace: An Oral Biography of John Cardinal O'Connor '' *''For the Cause of Liberty: A Thousand Years of Ireland's Heroes'' *''Machine Made:

Tammany Hall Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was a New York City political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789 as the Tammany Society. It became the main loc ...

and the Creation of Modern American Politics'' *''Frank and Al: FDR,

Al Smith Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928. The son of an Irish-American mother and a C ...

, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Golway, Terry Living people 21st-century American historians Kean University faculty The New York Observer people The New York Times columnists Rutgers University alumni American male non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) Historians from New York (state)