Alex Beam Biography
Alex Beam is an American writer and journalist. He is also a columnist for The Boston Globe. He has worked at Newsweek and BusinessWeek, where his tenure included Boston and Moscow bureau chief, before joining The Boston Globe. His columns for the Globe appeared since 1987.
He was a John Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1996–1997. Beam is the author of the 2014 book American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church
Alex Beam Age
Alex Beam was born in 1954 in Oakland, California, United States, Alex Beam is 65 years old as of 2019.
Alex Beam Net worth
Alex Beam earns his income from his work of writer and journalist. He also earns through his businesses and organizations. He also earns through the Awards industry. His net worth is estimated to be $1 million.
Alex Beam Family|Education
Alex Beam was born in 1954 in Oakland, California, United States to Jacob D. Beam, was a diplomat. Jacob D. Beam’s father was named Jacob. Alex Beam’s son is also named Jacob.
He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, where he was Foreign Correspondent for the twice-weekly school newspaper, The Exonian, and graduated from Yale University in 1975.
Alex Beam Writer and journalist.
Alex Beam helped the establishment of a small weekly newspaper in Ludlow, Vermont, The Black River Tribune.
Beam worked at Newsweek and BusinessWeek, where his tenure included Boston and Moscow bureau chief, before joining The Boston Globe.
His twice-weekly column for the Globe has appeared since 1987. He was a John Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1996–1997.
In addition to his journalistic work, Beam is the author of two novels set in Russia, Fellow Travelers (1987) and The Americans Are Coming! (1991), both published by St. Martin’s Press.
He has also published three works of non-fiction. Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America’s Premier Mental Hospital, which explored the history of McLean Hospital, was published in January 2002.
His second non-fiction book, about the Great Books movement, A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books, was published in 2008.
Both were named Notable Books in the annual list compiled by The New York Times Book Review. American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church was published in 2014.
For a time Beam wrote a weekly blog about squash, the sport, for Vanity Fair’s online edition. His son Christopher Beam is a political blogger for Slate. He is a churchgoer.
Alex Beam Controversy
In December 2010, Beam wrote an article in the Globe about Liverpool Football Club’s supporters, criticizing them for continuing to mourn the deaths of 96 supporters during the Hillsborough disaster, which he called a “riot.”
He also referred to the city as “doggy” and “grotty.” The reaction to Beam’s column reached the UK’s Daily Mail and was the subject of criticism by Liverpool’s supporters.
Responding to this on an independent an site, Alan Farlie stated that “the reason people are still ‘agonizing’ is that there are many who lost family and friends on a bright summer’s day.
There are still many who were at Hillsborough that day and who remember being crushed as their fellow fans died around them, crushed to death, because of failures in an organization and policing.”
The Globe later issued a correction to the online version of the article, acknowledging that the disaster was not a riot, and that the official investigation blamed poor crowd control and inadequate stadium design.
Alex Beam Globe
Alex Beam was a Globe staff columnist in the Business, Op-Ed and Living sections before joining the Opinion pages as a contributor in 2013. He has published two novels, three works of nonfiction, and is currently working on a book about Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson.
In addition to writing for the Globe, Beam is a columnist for Architecture Boston magazine and a guest commentator for the WGBH radio show “Boston Public Radio.”
Alex Beam Books
- American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church 2014
- A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books 2008
- Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America’s Premier Mental Hospital 2001
- The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship 2016
- Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America’s Premier Mental Hospital 2009
- Fellow Travelers 1987
- Broken Glass: Mies Van Der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece 2020
- The Americans are Coming! A Novel 1991
Alex Beam Articles
The ‘truthers’ and 9/11
I have a somewhat romantic view of architects. They seem to be generally smart and well educated, and ply their trade at the intersection of art and craft. In movies they are always well-groomed, sashaying around their tastefully designed studios, making insightful observations.
Give me
“Oh my God,” was my son’s comment, accompanied by the inevitable millennial eyeball roll. “What are you doing? Do you want to get that guy fired?”No, I didn’t want to get him fired. I wanted him to know that I appreciated the ride.
This same scenario played out just a few weeks ago when the Budget rental folks asked me to evaluate their one-woman operation in Venice, Fla. It is a showplace of efficiency. The manager cycles customers in and out of her office like a Mumbai traffic cop.
The Rise and Fall of the City Upon a Hill
Wall Street Journal April 22, 2019, Whatever happened to Boston? “The pathetic old city is now feeding on its own smugness, snobbery and wilted traditions,” Elizabeth Hardwick tartly observed in a famous put-down of the “whimsical stagnation of Boston” published in Harper’s magazine in 1959.
Here, let me eat that for you
Word of a new diet fad arrives from faraway China: intercessory eating. For what seems like a nominal fee – less than a dollar you can hire someone on the Internet to drink bubble tea for you. Why bubble tea? Because it is delicious, suggestively addictive, and quite fattening.
Things That Go Bump in the Night | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame
I will never forget the scariest ghost story I ever heard. I attended summer camp in Nova Scotia, on a crescent-shaped promontory overlooking the Bay of Fundy.
Then and now, this part of the world is thinly settled. In the pine forests descending to the rocky coast, we could see only one house for miles around. Dr. Magnuson’s house. As a nominal adult, I can assert that there never was a “Dr.
Alex Beam: You can’t beat the land of #FloridaMan – The Boston Globe
By now, even people as doggedly uninformed as I know about the Internet meme #FloridaMan.
Was There a Squash Court in the White House?
The question arises: Was there a squash court in the White House? We all know there is a swimming pool, where President Kennedy famously disported himself with female staffers nicknamed Fiddle and Faddle.
There is also a tennis court and a little-used bowling alley. But squash just seems all wrong for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, what with the occupants’ man-of-the-people pretensions. But.
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