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By James Reston, Jr.
To Defend, To Destroy, a novel, 1971
The Amnesty of John David Herndon, 1973
The Knock at Midnight, a novel, 1975
The Innocence of Joan Little, 1977
Sherman, the Peacemaker, a play, 1979
Our Father Who Art in Hell,
The Life and Death of Jim Jones, 1981
Jonestown Express, a play, 1984
Sherman's March and Vietnam, 1985
The Lone Star: the Life of John Connally, 1989
Collision at Home Plate:
The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti, 1991
Galileo: A Life, 1994
The Last Apocalypse:
Europe at the Year 1000 A.D., 1998
Warriors of God:
Richard the Lionheart and Saladin
in the Third Crusade, 2001
October 7, 2005:
Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors
February 2006:
Fragile Innocence: A Father's Memoir of His Daughter's Courageous Journey
Poster from the upcoming movie Frost/Nixon.
Italian Edition of the book The Conviction of Richard Nixon. |
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 SPECIAL EVENT: December 1, 2008.
Invitation-only screening of Frost/Nixon.
National Geographic auditorium.
"A compact and gripping behind-the-scenes narrative...intelligent, compassionate."
----The Washington Post
"Reston has crafted a riveting memoir...a welcome flashback for those still infatuated with one of America's darkest political hours."
----Los Angeles Times
"It hardly reads like history. Instead, watching the comeuppance of a highly unpopular and divisive president will provide gratifying thrills for the politically disenchanged....Reston's passion for finding the chinks in Nixon's armor makes for fascinating reading."
----Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"...a fascinating description of the planning and execution of the interviews."
----Deseret News
"A treasure trove of invaluable insights from an unimpeachable source."
---Frank Langella, star of the play, Frost/Nixon, as Richard Nixon.
"Show biz trumps the Ford pardon. A riveting account."
---Richard Ben-Veniste,
chief of Watergate Task Force
"Political history that reads like a thriller. Passionate, intelligent, entertaining, and human."
---Michael Sheen, star of Frost/Nixon as David Frost.
"...penetrating insights....undoubted historical value..."
----Palm Beach Post
Author Events: 2007
June 26: Constitution Center, Philadelphia,
Program with Robert Dallek
July 2: WHYY interview, Philadelphia
July 6: Bunch of Grapes Bookstore,
Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
July 12:Marc Steiner Show, Baltimore
.National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
July 18: Leonard Lopate Show, New York City
July 26: Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington
September 27: lecture in History Series, Salisbury House, Des Moines, Iowa.
Title: "History and Drama with Frost and Nixon: A Participant's Tale"
November 1: National Press Club Book Fair,
Washington, D.C.
November 10: Kentucky Book Fair, Frankfort, Ky.
November 11: Miami Book Fair
Author Events: 2008
May: Three Rivers Press publishes American paperback.
May: Sydney Writers Festival, to mark the Australian publication of the book, Sydney, Australia.
May: Essay in GQ Australia
Op Ed in The Age, Melbourne, Australia
September 30: Reston helps inaugurate the national tour of Frost/Nixon in Des Moines with three lectures.
October 15: Italian publication of The Conviction of Richard Nixon. Title: Niete e Illegale.
October 17: Reston in Toronto for premiere of Canadian Stage Company production of Frost/Nixon
October 28: Reston in Rochester for appearances around premiere of independent production of Frost/Nixon at the Geva Theatre Center.
November 14: Kennedy Center, Washington, opening night for touring production of Frost/Nixon.
November 15: Kentucky Book Fair
December 1: special invitation only screening of Ron Howard's movie of Frost/Nixon, Washington, National Geographic Society. Panel follows with Frank Langella, Peter Morgan, Ron Howard, and Reston, to be moderated by historian Robert Dallek.
One of the Best Books of 2006: Washington Post
February 2006, Harmony Books
Fragile Innocence: A Father's Memoir of His Daughter's Courageous Journey
"...[a] carefully crafted memoir....Fragile Innocence is a page-turning read. Most of all though, it's a story of a father's discovery, the discovery that love trumps terror, that love finds expression despite seemingly impossible circumstances. In the end, it's the story of a father's love for his daughter."
---Washington Post
"A story of love---and hope."
---Newsweek
"Renown author James Reston, Jr. details the heart-wrenching saga of his daughter....Hillary herself---without speech or language, with a nine-month old's intellect---makes the case for the value of every life. This is a compelling story."
----Publishers Weekly
"There is real polemic threaded through this memoir---an insistence that disabled, retarded or handicapped children's lives matter just as much as everyone else's.....Moving.
----Kirkus
 October 11, 2005, Doubleday
Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors
Eight foreign editions planned so far: Great Britain (Faber & Faber), February 2006; Spain, Korea, Brazil, Portugal, Russia, Albania, and Arabic
"...an engaging and highly readable book...The events in Dogs of God may have taken place more than 500 years ago, but there are times when they seem chillingly, worryingly familiar."
---Washington Post
"In an energetic style unfettered by scholarly jargon or too many footnotes, Reston brings alive the conflict between the Catholic and the Muslim and how the conflict still resonates today."
---USA Today
"Rarely has medieval history seemed so urgent."
---Kirkus
"This is a highly entertaining, thoughtful, and complex narrative and analyzes a greatly misunderstood era."
---Publishers Weekly
"...colorful...readable...vivid..."
----Jerusalem Post
"Told with sweep and intelligence, Reston's Dogs of God is a compelling, often provocative account of the ugly terrors of the Spanish Inquisition. More than just a chilling account of this dark chapter of history, its message about the dangers of religious excess has powerful echoes for the world today."
---Jay Winik, author of 1865: The Month that Saved America Biography of James Reston, Jr.
Author of 13 books, three plays, and numerous articles in national magazines. Winner of Prix Italia and the Dupont-Columbia Award for his 1983 90 minute radio documentary on National Public Radio, "Father Cares: the Last of Jonestown." His last four historical works, Galileo: A Life, The Last Apocalypse, and Warriors of God, and Dogs of God have been translated into twelve foreign languages. Warriors of God and Collision at Home Plate have been optioned by Hollywood.
In 1976-1977, Reston was David Frost's Watergate adviser for the famous Frost/Nixon Interviews, seen by 57 million people world-wide. His narrative of that experience will be published in 2007 and entitled The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews. The manuscript was a considerable inspiration to the British playwright, Peter Morgan, in the making of his hit London play, "Frost/Nixon," in which Reston is a major character.
His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Esquire, American Theatre, Playboy, and Rolling Stone.
In recent years he has lectured widely in the United States and overseas on the millennium, the crusades, and the Spanish Inquisition, citing their relevance to modern issues.
He has been a fellow at the American Academy in Rome, a scholar in residence at the Library of Congress, and is currently a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.
Born in New York in 1941, he was raised in Washington, D.C. and attended the University of North Carolina on a Morehead Scholarship where he earned his B.A. in philosophy. At UNC he was an All South soccer player and after forty two years still holds the single game scoring record for the university. (5 goals against N.C. State, October 18, 1962.) He attended Oxford University for his junior year.
Reston was an assistant to U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Steward Udall, 1964-65. U.S. Army, 1965-68. Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of North Carolina, 1971-81. Newsweek, PBS, and BBC candidate to be the first writer on the NASA space shuttle.
Married, with three children. Lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Literary agent: Joe Regal, Regal_Literary.
(212) 684-7900
Lecture agent: Andrew Walker, American Program Bureau, (617) 614-1611
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Biography
Galileo: A Life
"It is the triumph of the book that Reston himself is able to offer a convincing imitation of a Renaissance man-stepping beyond the Arts/Science dichotomy of the 20th century to tell the story of a society where not only were science and religion regarded as the same side of the coin, but in which their union made sense....a brilliant biography." --The Washington Post Book World
History
The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 A.D.
"Sifting through court poems, Norse sagas, Hungarian folk takes,....Reston constructs a colorful and dramatic story." --The New York Times Book Review
History of Sport
Collision at Home Plate: The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti
A dual biography of the great, but flawed hit leader in major league baseball and the former Yale President and Baseball Commissioner who banned Rose from baseball for betting
History, Crusades
Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade
"Remarkably intimate and engagingly detailed." --Kirkus Reviews
"Splendid and thrilling....a wonderfully told story." --The New York Times Book Review
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