Thomas Whiteside

Thomas Whiteside (April 21, 1918 – October 6, 1997) was an American journalist.^[1][2]

Born in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Whiteside studied at the University of Chicago. During World War II, he worked for the Office of War Propaganda, compiling reports on Axis propaganda. His work appeared in the Newsweek, The New Republic, and The New Yorker.^[3] He was instrumental in publicizing the damage of Agent Orange.^[4] He died in West Cornwall, Connecticut in 1997.

Awards

• 1986 MacArthur Fellows Program ^[5]

Works

• The relaxed sell, Oxford University Press, 1954
• The big puff, Constable, 1955
• The tunnel under the Channel, Simon and Schuster, 1962
• Alone through the dark sea, Braziller, 1964, ISBN 978-0-8076-0275-1
• An agent in place: the Wennerström affair, Viking Press, 1966 (reprint, Ballantine Books, 1983, ISBN 978-0-345-30326-4)
• Twiggy and Justin, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968, ISBN 978-0-374-27980-6
• Defoliation, Ballantine Books, 1970, ISBN 978-0-345-01870-0
• The withering rain: America's herbicidal folly, Dutton, 1971, ISBN 978-0-525-23575-0
• Selling death: cigarette advertising and public health, Liveright, 1971, ISBN 978-0-87140-541-8
• The Investigation of Ralph Nader, Pocket Books (December 1972), ISBN 978-0-671-78249-8
• The Pendulum and the Toxic Cloud: The Course of Dioxin Contamination, Yale University Press (September 10, 1979), ISBN 978-0-300-02283-4 ^[6]
• The Blockbuster Complex: Conglomerates, Show Business, and Book Publishing, Wesleyan University Press, 1981, ISBN 978-0-8195-5057-6 ^[7]

References

1. "Thomas Whiteside, 79, Dies; Writer Exposed Agent Orange", The New York Times, DOUGLAS MARTIN, October 12, 1997
2. The Free Lance-Star, Nov 6, 1997
3. http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=thomas+whiteside&queryType=nonparsed&submitbtn.x=0&submitbtn.y=0&submitbtn=Submit
4. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,920236,00.html
5. http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1301971/k.242F/Fellows_by_Domain_and_Area_OLD.htm
6. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,920236,00.html
7. http://journalism.nyu.edu/portfolio/books/book252.html

External links

• Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?, iUniverse, 2005, ISBN 978-0-595-35825-0