Richard Lingeman

Senior Editor

Richard Lingeman is a senior editor of The Nation. His books include Small Town America: A Narrative Hisory, 1620-Present; Don't You Know There's a War On? The American Home Front, 1941-1945; An American Journey: Theodore Dreiser (a two-volume biography, now available in one abridged paperback edition from John Wiley & Sons); Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Main Street (Random House) and, most recently, Double Lives: American Writers’ Friendships (Random House).

Currently

  • The Files' Tale: Redbaited by the FBI

    December 22, 2009 Subscribe

    How The Nation's special issue on the bureau brought down the wrath of J. Edgar Hoover.

  • Nader's Road to Utopia

    September 23, 2009 Subscribe

    In Ralph Nader's new utopian novel, "only the super-rich can save us."

  • How to Talk to Wall Street (If You Must)

    July 30, 2009

    Obama shouldn't tone down his rhetoric on contentious subjects like racial profiling and executive bonuses. In fact he should emulate politicians of the past who often went off script with stirring results.

  • Reagan Wins: The Hollow Man

    May 6, 2009

    Like a veteran door-to-door salesman, Ronald Reagan is a huckster, only instead of vacuum cleaners, he peddles fear--so successfully that he is now president of the United States.

2006

  • Sorel's People

    May 26, 2006

    In Literary Lives, caricaturist Edward Sorel tells all and then some about giants like Yeats, Proust, Hellman and Jung within the humble frame of a comic strip.

  • The Gospel of Scooter

    May 2, 2006

    A political nightmare, with a scriptural spin, tells the true story of two nefarious lords and their faithful servant.

  • The Gospel of Scooter

    April 11, 2006

    A political nightmare, with a scriptural spin, tells the true story of two nefarious lords and their faithful servant.

  • He's Got a Little List

    February 23, 2006 Subscribe

    The Nation is pleased that so many of its contributors are included on a right-wing list of the most dangerous academics in America.

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Blogs

» The Beat

Facing Bipartisan Criticism, RNC's Steele Asks If Race Is Factor | "Why? Is it because Michael Steele is the chairman, or is it because a black man is chairman?” he wonders. Maybe he could compare notes with Obama.
John Nichols
Posted at 8:46 PM ET

» Editor's Cut

New Web Column at The Washington Post | Every Tuesday, I'll be featuring progressive thinking about politics and challenging the Right in my new web column for The Washington Post. Read my first one here.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
31 Comments

» The Notion

When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown | Anger is growing in Vancouver in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Like Olympic clockwork, here comes the media crackdown.
Dave Zirin
42 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

The Mind-Boggling Stupidity of Michael Rubin | How an AEI apparatchik's love affair for Ahmed Chalabi blinds him to Chalabi's pro-Iran treachery.
Robert Dreyfuss
27 Comments

» Act Now!

Demand Question Time | Join the call for the President and Congress to implement regular Question Time sessions.
Peter Rothberg
56 Comments

» And Another Thing

How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday | Give to help low income girls and women.
Katha Pollitt
54 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | James O'Keefe and Alter-reviews.
Eric Alterman