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William Greider5th Annual John S. Knight Lecturer
William Greider followed the traditional career path of a successful newspaper reporter and editor for quite a number of years and then changed directions rather dramatically. A graduate of Princeton, he began newspaper work with the Wheaton Daily Journal in Wheaton, Illinois. From there he went to Louisville, Kentucky and wrote for the Louisville Times and Courier Journal, first in Louisville and later in that paper's Washington, D.C., bureau. In 1968 he went to work for the Washington Post, as a reporter and later as an editor, rising eventually to the position of assistant managing editor. Then in 1982 he left the Post to become a freelance writer and the national editor of Rolling Stone where he does reporting and commentary on national political issues. Shortly before he left the Post Greider did a much-quoted magazine piece for the Atlantic based on a series of conversations he had had with David Stockman, President Reagan's budget director. Later that article was expanded into a book which Bill wrote called "The Education of David Stockman and Other Americans." Subsequently he took a penetrating look at the operations of the Federal Reserve Board, the government body that tries to regulate the economy by controlling the money supply and interest rates, in a book called "Secrets of the Temple. " In 1992 his book, "Who Will Tell the People? The Betrayal of American Democracy,' was published. This book examined faults in the American political process and in various national institutions including the news media. It became required reading for political figures, the press, presidential candidates, and it was on the New York Times' best-seller list for nearly half the year, for twenty weeks. Greider lives and works in Washington. |
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