Book Reviews -- Joseph Alsop and American Foreign Policy by Leann Grabavoy Almquist

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Almquist, Leann Grabavoy. Joseph Alsop and American Foreign Policy. Landham, MD: University Press of America, 1993. 226 pp. $46.50.

Joseph Alsop was one of postwar America's most influential columnists, with perhaps only Walter Lippmann and James Reston ranking above him in importance. His first column, in collaboration with Robert E. Kintner, appeared in the New York Herald Tribune in 1937. He soon had a new partner, his brother Stewart, a new flagship, the Washington Post, and a growing readership. At one point 137 newspapers and the Saturday Evening Post carried his analyses.

Alsop put most of his energy into reviewing American foreign policy, an emphasis that forms the …