Thomas B. Edsall

From 2006 to 2014, Edsall served as the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Public Affairs Journalism at Columbia University,[3] where he continues to teach in an adjunct capacity.[4] In 2011, he became a weekly opinion columnist for the New York Times,[5] where he currently continues.[2] Previously, he covered national politics for the Washington Post from 1981 to 2006; politics for The Baltimore Sun (1967–1981); VISTA volunteer (1966–1967); and The Providence Journal (1965).[5] He was the political editor of the Huffington Post from 2007 to 2009,[6] a correspondent for The New Republic from 2006 to 2013 and for the National Journal from 2006 to 2007.[3] In November and December 2006, Edsall was a guest columnist for the print edition of the New York Times Op-Ed page.[7][8]

Edsall was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Linn Edsall and Katherine Byrne.[9] He attended Brown University and received his B.A. from Boston University in 1966. He is married and lives in New York and Washington, D.C., with his wife, Mary (daughter of Karl Deutsch),[9] with whom he co-authored the book Chain Reaction.[10]

• Shapiro Fellowship, School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University (2015)[11]
• Markwell Award of the International Society of Political Psychology (2014)[12]
• Finalist, General Non-Fiction, Pulitzer Prize, 1992, for Chain Reaction: The Impact on American Politics of Race, Rights and Taxes (W.W. Norton)[13]
• Bill Pryor Memorial Award, Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, 1981[14]
• Carey McWilliams Award, American Political Science Association, 1994[15]
• Fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1996–1997[3]
• Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1997, 2000, 2003–2006, 2010–2012[3]

External video

Booknotes interview with Edsall on Chain Reaction, December 15, 1991, C-SPAN

Washington Journal interview with Edsall on The Age of Austerity, January 27, 2012, C-SPAN

• Edsall, Thomas B. (1984). The New Politics of Inequality. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-30250-4.
• —— (1988). Power and Money: Writing About Politics. W. W. Norton & Company.
• ——; Edsall, Mary D. (August 1992). Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-30903-7.
• —— (August 28, 2006). Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive For Permanent Power. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-01815-7.
• —— (January 10, 2012). The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-53519-9.

• New York Times columns: https://www.nytimes.com/column/thomas-b-edsall
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Columbia University faculty bio for Edsall
• A War of All Against All; Are Democrats and Republicans now engaged in a 'death struggle' over dwindling resources, making gridlock and dysfunction more likely? by W. James Antle III January 10, 2012, a The Age of Austerity WSJ book review
• "What Became of the Democrats," by David Oshinsky, https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/20/books/what-became-of-the-democrats.html?pagewanted=all
• "Race," by Thomas Byrne Edsall, https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/race/edsall.htm
• "The Wind that Blew in Reagan," by Murray Kempton, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1985/02/28/the-wind-that-blew-in-reagan/
• The Political Price of Austerity by Mark Schmitt January 20, 2012 NYT book review
• Collected columns for The New Republic