Rosenbaum grew up in Bay Shore, New York. He graduated from Yale University in 1968 and won a Carnegie Fellowship to attend Yale's graduate program in English Literature, though he dropped out after taking one course. He wrote for the The Village Voice for several years, leaving in 1975 after which he wrote for Esquire, Harper's, High Times, Vanity Fair and New York Times Magazine.
Rosenbaum spent more than ten years doing research on Adolf Hitler including travels to Vienna, Munich, London, Paris, London, and Jerusalem, interviewing leading historians, philosophers, biographers, theologians and psychologists. The result was his acclaimed 1998 book, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil (Harper Collins. ISBN 0-679-43151-9).
In Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum also recounted in detail the previously little-reported story of the efforts of anti-Hitler journalists at the Munich Post who from 1920 to 1933, published repeated exposés on the criminal activities of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Matthew Ricketson, coordinator of the Journalism program at RMIT University's School of Applied Communication in Melbourne, Australia, called this book "a brilliant piece of research.
In 1987 he began writing a weekly column for the New York Observer called "The Edgy Enthusiast". He currently writes a column for Slate called The Spectator.
His most recent book is The Shakespeare Wars, which discussed recent controversies among literary historians, actors, and directors over how the works of William Shakespeare should be read, understood, and produced.
Books
- The Shakespeare Wars (2006)
- Editor of: Those Who Forget the Past: The Question of Anti-Semitism (2004)
- The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms (2000)
- Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil (1998)
- Travels with Doctor Death (1991)
- Manhattan Passions: True Tales of Power, Wealth, and Excess (1988)
- Rebirth of the salesman: tales of the song & dance 70s (1979)
- Murder at Elaine's: A novel (1978)
See also
References
External links
- Ron Rosenbaum
- New York Observer
- To aid researchers, author Ron Rosenbaum has allowed the scanning of Explaining Hitler at Amazon.com
- Reviews of The Hitler Of History by John Lukacs & Explaining Hitler: The Search For The Origins Of His Evil by Ron Rosenbaum
- Excerpt: The Shakespeare Wars on CBC Words at Large
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