Thomas Whiteside (journalist)
Thomas Whiteside was an American journalist.
Born in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Whiteside studied at the University of Chicago. During World War II, he worked for the Office of War Propaganda, compiling reports on Axis propaganda. His work appeared in the Newsweek, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. He was instrumental in publicizing the damage of Agent Orange. He died in West Cornwall, Connecticut in 1997.Awards
- 1986 MacArthur Fellows Program
Works
- The relaxed sell, Oxford University Press, 1954
- The big puff, Constable, 1955
- The tunnel under the Channel, Simon and Schuster, 1962
- Alone through the dark sea, Braziller, 1964,
- An agent in place: the Wennerström affair, Viking Press, 1966
- Twiggy and Justin, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968,
- Defoliation, Ballantine Books, 1970,
- The withering rain: America's herbicidal folly, Dutton, 1971,
- Selling death: cigarette advertising and public health, Liveright, 1971,
- The Investigation of Ralph Nader, Pocket Books,
- The Pendulum and the Toxic Cloud: The Course of Dioxin Contamination, Yale University Press,
- The Blockbuster Complex: Conglomerates, Show Business, and Book Publishing, Wesleyan University Press, 1981,
