Thomas Oliphant Bio, Age, Family, Wife, Boston Globe And Net Worth.

Thomas Oliphant Biography

Thomas Oliphant is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a former Washington correspondent and a columnist for the Boston Globe. He is a regular commentator on PBS “NewsHour,” and the author of four books.

Thomas Oliphant Age

Thomas Oliphant was born in Brooklyn, New York. His exact birth month and birth date are still not known but will be updated as soon as it’s clear.

Thomas Oliphant Family

Oliphant was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended and graduated from La Jolla High School in California. In 1967, he graduated from Harvard University. Additionally, he has kept his personal life of the limelight and hence there is no information revealed about his childhood and family.

Thomas Oliphant Wife

Oliphant is a married man. He tied the knot with Susan Spencer and American television news reporter and correspondent for 48 Hours Mystery and CBS Sunday Morning.

Thomas Oliphant Net Worth

Thomas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and has been a correspondent for The Boston Globe. He lives a lavish and luxurious life with his family. As of 2019, his estimated net worth is still under review but will be updated as soon as it’s clear.

Thomas Oliphant Career

Thomas joined the Boston Globe in 1968. During his career with the newspaper, he served as its Washington correspondent and reported on ten Presidential campaigns. The Boys on the Bus, Timothy Crouse’s account of the 1972 United States presidential campaign, included him as one of the prominent journalists among “the boys” covering the campaign.

Oliphant was one of three editors who managed The Globe‘s coverage of school desegregation in Boston. This work won a 1975 Pulitzer Prize, and in 1980, he was a finalist in the category of Editorial Writing. He also received a writing award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

In March 2005, Oliphant suffered a brain aneurysm. His account of the experience and his recovery appeared in The Globe on June 5, 2005. At the end of 2005, he was one of 32 Globe staff members who accepted a retirement buyout package from the New York Times Company, owner of The Globe.

He has been a frequent guest on television news programs, including; Nightline on ABC-TV, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, Face The Nation, the Today show, Good Morning America and CBS This Morning. On August 26, 2009, on a Wednesday, he last appeared on Jim Lehrer’s program, when he discussed the legacy of Ted Kennedy. He was also a regular guest on The Al Franken Show, where he also appeared as a guest host in August 2006.

Don Imus controversy

In April 2007, he became involved in controversy arising from some vulgar remarks that talk radio host Don Imus made regarding African American players on the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. On April 9, 2007, he was a guest on the Imus’ morning radio show in the midst of the developing controversy. Imus had apologized for his comment before that show, and Oliphant explained his decision to appear on the show to the New York Times, saying “He said he screwed up and he was sorry.” On that evening’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, he was critical of Imus’ remarks, calling them “inexcusably horrible”, but said, “I don’t think he should be fired.”

After declaring solidarity with Imus, he announced that he would no longer appear on television or radio until Imus was reinstated to both his radio show and the MSNBC simulcast.

Thomas Oliphant Books

• (He co-authored with Curtis Wilkie) The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK’s Five-year Campaign (May 9, 2017) ISBN 9781501105562
• (co-author) Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game, (2013) ISBN 978-1-592-40754-5
• Utter Incompetents. Ego and Ideology in the Age of Bush, (2007) Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 0312360177
• Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family’s Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers, (2005) ISBN 0-312-31761-1
• (co-author) All by Myself: The Unmaking of a Presidential Campaign, (1989) ISBN 0-87106-547-9

Thomas Oliphant The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK’s Five-year Campaign

A behind-the-scenes, revelatory account of John F. Kennedy’s wily campaign for the White House, beginning with his bold failed attempt to win the vice-presidential nomination in 1956. A young and ordinary junior plots his way to the presidency and changes the way we nominate and elect presidents.

John F. Kennedy and his young warriors invented modern presidential politics. They turned over accepted wisdom that his Catholicism was a barrier to winning an election and plotted a successful course to that constituency. They hired Louis Harris – a polling entrepreneur – to become the first presidential pollster. They twisted arms, and they charmed. They lined up party bosses, young enthusiasts, and fellow Catholics and turned the traditional party inside out. The last-minute invitation to Lyndon B. Johnson to be vice president in 1956 surprised them only because they had failed to notice that he wanted it. They invented The Missile Gap in the Cold War and out-glamoured Richard Nixon in the TV debates.

Now, acclaimed, award-winning journalists Tom Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie provide the most comprehensive account, based on personal reporting, interviews, and archives. The authors have examined more than 1,600 oral histories at the John F. Kennedy library; they’ve interviewed surviving sources, including JFK’s sister Jean Smith; and they draw on their own interviews with insiders including Ted Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. From the start of the campaign in 1955, when his father tried to persuade President Johnson to run with JFK as his running mate, The Road to Camelot reveals him as a tough, shrewd political strategist who kept his eye on the prize. This is one of the great campaign stories of all time, appropriate for today’s political climate.