Terry Golway

Oct 8, 2024 | americanheritage.com | Edwin Grosvenor |Yuval Levin |Jennifer J. Rodibaugh |Terry Golway

It all started with a Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign button. What grew into the largest private collection of American presidential election memorabilia was the outgrowth of a happenstance visit by 10-year-old Jordan M. Wright to Kennedy’s Manhattan headquarters in 1968. The button that the volunteers gave to the inquisitive kid was the seed for a collection that decades later would become the nonprofit organization named the Museum of Democracy.

Feb 21, 2024 | lithub.com | Terry Golway

When young writers, particularly would-be journalists, ask me for advice about improving their thinking as well as their writing, I tell them to consider some topic about which they have strong personal feelings. Then write an essay arguing vigorously in favor of the other side’s opinion. Make sure it is loaded with facts and figures to support the thesis. And construct your argument with just the one hand—no other hand, please.

Nov 8, 2023 | wsj.com | Terry Golway

Timothy Meagher’s subtly provocative book, like many other studies of the Irish experience in America, ends with John F. Kennedy’s election as the nation’s first Irish-Catholic president. It is Mr. Meagher’s starting point that signals his scholarly intervention. He begins not with the arrival of Andrew Jackson’s parents in the Carolinas from Ireland in 1765. Nor does he start with the massive migration spurred by the Great Famine in 1845-52.

Jun 23, 2022 | politico.com | Terry Golway

Mar 4, 2022 | politico.com | Terry Golway