Charles Kaiser

Charles Kaiser (born 1950) is an American author, journalist and blogger.

His book about one family in the French Resistance, The Cost of Courage (2015) received enthusiastic reviews from The Washington Post,^[1] The Wall Street Journal,^[2] and The Christian Science Monitor,^[3] among many other publications. It also won the grand prize at the Paris Book Festival (2015).^[4]

His blog about the media, Full Court Press, originated on the website of Radar Magazine in the fall of 2007. He continued it at the Columbia Journalism Review^[5] and the Sidney Hillman Foundation^[6] until the spring of 2011.

His main interests include modern French history, The New York Times, torture conducted by the Bush administration,^[7] American politics,^[8] the French Resistance, Bob Dylan, and The Beatles.^[9]

Early life

The son of a diplomat, Philip Mayer Kaiser, he grew up in Washington, D.C., Albany, New York, Dakar, Senegal, London, England and Windsor, Connecticut. He has lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for many years.

Career

Kaiser first started writing for The New York Times when he was an undergraduate at Columbia University. He has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton.

Kaiser is a former reporter for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and a former press critic for Newsweek. He has also written for The Washington Post,^[10] the Los Angeles Times,^[11] The New York Observer,^[12] New York magazine,^[13] Vanity Fair, the Columbia Journalism Review, and many other publications.

Works

He is the author of The Cost of Courage, 1968 In America, and The Gay Metropolis. The Gay Metropolis was a Lambda Literary Award winner,^[14] as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.^[15] He was a memorable guest on the Colbert Report,^[16] where he discussed a new edition of The Gay Metropolis. He wrote the afterword for a 2012 edition of Merle Miller's landmark work, On Being Different: What it Means to Be a Homosexual. That afterword was excerpted on the website of the New York Review of Books.^[17]

Controversy

On November 22nd, 2016, while quoting a word which was later acknowledged as misattributed to Steve Bannon, Kaiser said the term "nigger" during a live broadcast of a CNN panel.^[18] Kaiser described the nomination of Bannon as Senior Counselor for the Presidency of Donald Trump, having previously been the executive chair of Breitbart News, as a "disgusting moment in our history."

The use of the word was denounced by the host, Brooke Baldwin. Baldwin was visibly upset, taking issue "that someone used the N-word" on her show. ^[19]

Kaiser later apologized for the use of the word, and the fact that he had misattributed the word to Bannon. ^[20]

References

External links

• "Author - The Cost of Courage - Gay Metropolis - 1968 in America - Full Court Press". Charles Kaiser. Retrieved 2016-11-23. 
• "Full-Court Press - Columbia Journalism Review". Cjr.org. Retrieved 2016-11-23. 
• "Search Results". Web.archive.org. Retrieved 2016-11-23.