Victor Lasky

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Victor Lasky


Born
in Liberty, New York, The United States
January 07, 1918

Died
February 22, 1990

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A longtime conservative columnist, Victor Lasky got his start in journalism in 1940 as a copy boy for The New York Journal-American. During the Second World War, Lasky worked as a correspondent for the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes covering the war in Europe. After the war, he joined the staff of The New York World-Telegram, where he assisted Frederick Woltman with his Pulitzer Prize-winning articles on Communist infiltration and co-wrote a book on Alger Hiss's trial with Ralph de Toledano.

During the 1950s Lasky worked as a screenwriter, and from 1956 to 1960 he was in charge of public relations for Radio Liberty. In 1962 he began writing a syndicated newspaper column, ''Say It Straight,'' for the North American Newspaper Alliance, which
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It Didn't Start with Watergate

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J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth

3.33 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1963 — 10 editions
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Robert F. Kennedy: The Myth...

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Never Complain, Never Expla...

3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1981 — 4 editions
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Jimmy Carter: The Man and t...

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The Ugly Russian

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Arthur J. Goldberg: The Old...

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The American Legion Reader

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The case against Dean Acheson

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John F. Kennedy;: What's be...

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