John Maxwell Hamilton

John Maxwell Hamilton (born March 28, 1947) is a journalist, public servant, and educator. He is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor in the Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University, and a Global Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

Career

Hamilton is the author or coauthor of seven books and editor of many more. His two most recent books are ''Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda'' and ''Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting.'' Each of them won the Goldsmith Prize among other awards. His other books include ''Edgar Snow: A Biography'' and the lighthearted ''Casanova Was A Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities about the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books.''

As a journalist, Hamilton reported in the United States and abroad for the ''Milwaukee Journal,'' the ''Christian Science Monitor'', and ABC radio. He was a longtime commentator for MarketPlace, broadcast nationally by Public Radio International. His work has appeared in the ''New York Times,'' the ''Washington Post'', ''Politico'', ''Foreign Affairs,'' and ''The Nation'', among other publications.

In government, Hamilton oversaw nuclear non-proliferation issues for the House Foreign Affairs Committee, served in the State Department during the Carter administration as special assistant to the head of the U.S. foreign aid program in Asia, and managed a World Bank program to educate Americans about economic development. He served in Vietnam as a Marine Corps platoon commander and in Okinawa as a reconnaissance company commander.

In his twenty years as an LSU administrator, Hamilton was founding dean of the Manship School and the university's executive vice-chancellor and provost. While he was dean, the Manship School created a doctoral degree devoted to media and public affairs, and launched the Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs and a related opinion research facility. The number of majors more than doubled as did the size of the faculty and staff; the school's endowment more than sextupled.

In the 1980s, Hamilton established a foreign news project for the Society of Professional Journalists and for the American Society of Newspaper editors. The ''National Journal'' said in the 1980s that Hamilton shaped public opinion about the complexity of U.S.-Third World relations probably "more than any other single journalist." For many years, Hamilton was on the board of the Lamar Corporation, the largest outdoor advertising company (by number of outdoor signs) in the United States.

Hamilton received the Freedom Forum's Administrator of the Year Award in 2003. He has received funding from the Carnegie and Ford Foundations, among others. In 2002 he was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He has served twice as a Pulitzer Prize jurist. Hamilton is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and the Overseas Press Club. Hamilton serves on the board of the International Center for Journalists, of which he is treasurer.

Hamilton earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Marquette and Boston University respectively, and a doctorate in American Civilization from George Washington University.

Awards

*Two-time winner of the Goldsmith Prize
*Two-time winner of Book of the Year Award, American Journalism Historians Association
*Book of the year, History Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
*Culbert Family Book Prize for Publications on Media History
*Tankard Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
*Unsung Hero Award, selected by LSU Martin Luther King Commemorative Committee, 2006
*Omicron Delta Kappa, National Leadership Honorary Society, inducted 2004
*Freedom Forum Journalism Administrator of the Year, 2003

Publications

# ''Main Street America and the Third World''
# ''Entangling Alliances: How The Third World Shapes our Lives''
# ''Edgar Snow: A Biography''
# ''Hold the Press: The Inside Story on Newspapers'' (with co-author George Krimsky)
# ''Casanova Was a Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities About the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books''
# ''Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Newsgathering Abroad''
# ''The Washington Post,'
"Happy 100th birthday, information warfare: How World War I led to modern propaganda and surveillance"
# ''The Washington Post''

# ''The Conversation''
"Why you should care about the 'Third Dimension' of government information"
# ''The Conversation,'
"The sinking of the Lusitania: how the British won American hearts and minds"
# ''The New York Times,'

# ''Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda''
# ''Public Service or Propaganda? How Americans Evaluate Political Advocacy by Executive Agencies''
#''The Natural History of the News: An Epigenetic Study''
#''Herbert Corey’s Great War: A Memoir of World War I by the American Reporter Who Saw It All''

References

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1947 births

Living people

Marquette University alumni
Boston University College of Communication alumni
American reporters and correspondents
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences alumni
American male journalists
20th-century American journalists
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American journalists
21st-century American male writers