Reeves, Richard, 1936-....

Richard Reeves (b. 1936) is a 1960 graduate of the Stevens Institute. After graduation, he worked at newspapers in New Jersey and New York. In 1966, Reeves was hired by The New York Times as chief political correspondent. In the next decade, Reeves wrote columns for New York Magazine (1971 to 1976), and then for Esquire (1976 to 1980). During that time, Reeves also authored three books on American national politics, A Ford, Not a Lincoln (1976), Old Faces of ’76, and Convention (1977), and also taught journalism and political science at the Columbia School of Journalism from 1974 to 1976. Reeves returned to newspaper journalism in 1979 when he became a columnist for the United Press Syndicate. From 1981 to 1984, Reeves was chief correspondent for Frontline, a weekly U.S. news and current affairs program by the Public Broadcasting Service. In 1993, Reeves wrote President Kennedy: Profile of Power, a biography of President John F. Kennedy.