Paul Duke

Biography

Paul Duke. Native Richmond, Va. Journalist. The Associated Press, Wall Street journal, NBC, PBS. Moderator Washington Week in Review 1974-94. Author of numerous articles for leading publications, including The Saturday Evening Post, the New Republic and Virginia Quarterly Review. Winner of various press awards, including the $25,000 John Chancellor prize for lifetime journalistic excellence in 1999. Member of the Washington Jurnalism Hall of Fame andd the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame. Married to the former Janet Wachter, two children. Rresident Washington, D.C. and Sarasota, Fla.

See Work

Summer 1994

The Wayward Media

By Paul Duke
Spring 2000

Television: “One Vast Ubiquitous Library”

By Paul Duke
CRITICISM / Autumn 2002

A Catastrophic Battlefield

By Paul Duke

The flood of World War II memorabilia shows no signs of ebbing. The vast outpouring of books, memoirs, letters, diaries, and television documentaries has covered the historical waterfront, providing an incredibly rich trove of material for...

ESSAYS / Winter 2002

The Greatest Generation?

By Paul Duke

War has been described as the most successful of all of our cultural traditions, a dehumanizing reality confirmed by Ernest Hemingway when he once observed that many a good man “will die like a dog for no good reason.” As a hand-me-down...