Michael D'Antonio

For the musician, see Mike D'Antonio.

Michael D'Antonio (born May 11, 1955)[1] is an American author, journalist, and commentator on CNN. He shared the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting with a team of Newsday reporters for their coverage of the Baby Jane Doe Case. He has written over a dozen books, including Never Enough, a 2015 biography of Donald Trump, and A Consequential President, a 2017 book on the presidency of Barack Obama.[2] His book Mortal Sins was a 2014 Edgar Award nominee.[3]

D'Antonio was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1977.[1] He wrote for the Dover Democrat in New Hampshire from 1976 to 1977, and the Portland Press Herald in Maine from 1977 to 1983 before joining Newsday as a writer, where he worked from 1983 to 1990. He was also a contributing editor to Child magazine.[1]

Books

  • Fall From Grace: The Failed Crusade of the Christian Right (1990)
  • Heaven on Earth: Dispatches From America's Spiritual Frontier (1992)
  • Atomic Harvest: Hanford and the Lethal Toll of America's Nuclear Arsenal (1993)
  • The Best Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and the Covenant of Caring (with Mike Magee) (1999)
  • Tin Cup Dreams: A Long Shot Makes it on the PGA Tour (2000)
  • The Fourth Mega-Market, Now Through 2011 (with Ralph Acampora) (2000)
  • Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe (with Andrew Spielman) (2001)
  • Tour '72: Nicklaus, Palmer, Player, Trevino; The Story of One Great Season (2002).
  • Fun While It Lasted: My Rise and Fall in the Land of Fame and Fortune (with Bruce McNall) (2003)
  • The State Boys Rebellion (2004)
  • Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams (2006)
  • A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957 – The Space Race Begins (2007)
  • Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O’Malley, Baseball’s Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles (2009)
  • A Full Cup: Sir Thomas Lipton's Extraordinary Life and His Quest for the America’s Cup (2010)
  • Spend Shift: How the Post-Crisis Values Revolution Is Changing the Way We Buy, Sell, and Live (with John Gerzema) (2010)
  • The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future (with John Gerzema) (2013)
  • Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal (2013)
  • Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success (2015) (reprinted as The Truth About Trump, 2016)
  • A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama (2017)
  • The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence (with Peter Eisner) (2018)
  • The Hunting of Hillary: The Forty-Year Campaign to Destroy Hillary Clinton (2020)
  • High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump (with Peter Eisner) (2020)
  • Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country (with Adam Kinzinger) 2023

References

  1. ^ a b c Olendorf, Donna, ed. (1993). "D'Antonio, Michael". Contemporary Authors. Vol. 140. Gale Research Inc. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-8103-1971-3.
  2. ^ Porch, Scott (January 20, 2018). "Tallying the facts of Obama's economic legacy". Chicago Tribune.
  3. ^ "Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2014 Edgar Award Nominations". www.prnewswire.com. January 16, 2014.


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