Terry Golway is an American historian, author, and a journalist, having served as a columnist and editorial board member for The New York Times and a long-time editor and writer at The New York Observer.
Career
In 2010, Golway discovered a historic early census count predating the creation of the United States at Liberty HallNational Historic Landmark at Kean.[1] He is the author of several books on American and Irish history.[2]
Golway's book on John F. Kennedy, JFK: Day by Day, was made into an iPad app to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's inauguration.[3]
Golway is an occasional op-ed columnist for The New York Times,[4][5] where he was once a member of the editorial board.[6][7] Previously, he spent two decades at The New York Observer.[7] As of March 2013[update] 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.[8]
Books authored
JFK: Day by Day: A Chronicle of the 1,036 Days of John F. Kennedy'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 and the Creation of Modern American Politics
Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party
