Joseph Kraft papers, 1950-1986.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Joseph Kraft papers, 1950-1986.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/506119332

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, research materals, lectures, speeches, galley proofs, news releases, appointment diaries, photographs, printed materials, audio and video cassettes. The correspondence consists of letters from editors and publishers as well as a selected group of letters from readers reacting to his columns and articles. Among these letters are one or two each from Joseph Alsop, Warren E. Burger, J. William Fulbright, John Kenneth Galbraith and Hubert H. Humphrey. The manuscripts, with corrections, notes and research materials are for his numerous contributions to periodicals, such as the "Letters from ..." series in The New Yorker, radio and television scripts, interviews with prominent government officials, such as George Shultz, lectures speeches, ideas and proposals for books and an extensive file for his unpublished history of the investment firm, Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Inc. There is a set of news releases for his column, "Washington Insight," 1965-84 and for his Los Angeles Times column, 1980-1985. The printed materials include newspaper clippings, articles by Kraft in foreign periodicals and some books from his library. The audio and video cassettes contain interviews with presidents and prime ministers as well as radio and television broadcasts on which Kraft appeared.

46 boxes.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7629914

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

Shultz, George Pratt, 1920-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6136gsj (person)

George Pratt Shultz was born December 13, 1920, in New York, New York, son of Birl E. and Margaret Pratt Shultz. He married Helena Marie O''Brien in 1946. He received a B.A. in economics from Princeton University in 1942. That same year he joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served until 1945, attaining the rank of Captain. In 1949, he earned a Ph.D. in industrial economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 1948 to 1957, he taught in both the MIT Department of Economics and...

Kraft, Joseph, 1924-1968.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cp13z9 (person)

Joseph Kraft (Columbia B.A., 1947) was a journalist and political commentator; editorial writer for the Washington Post, 1951; staff writer, New York Times, 1951-57; Washington correspondent, Harper's Magazine; syndicated columnist, "Washington Insight," 1963-86; and frequent contributor to national and foreign magazines. From the description of Joseph Kraft papers, 1950-1986. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 506119332 ...

Lehman Brothers

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6004vwb (corporateBody)

The investment banking firm Lehman Brothers was founded as a cotton brokerage in Alabama in 1850. Lehman Brothers quickly evolved from a general merchandising business into a commodities brokerage, eventually becoming a merchant banking firm offering sizable securities trading and financial advisory services. In 1977, Lehman Brothers, Inc. merged with Kuhn, Loeb & Company, another noted investment banking firm. The merged company was called Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb. From the d...