Word: lashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...auspicious beginning. Joseph P. Lash, onetime radical and United Nations correspondent for The New York Post, thought he had a good idea. In his spare time, he had written a profile of U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammerskjold ("The Man on the 38th Floor") for Harper's and it had gone over big. "It interested people," Lash recalls today with typical understatement...
Crestfallen but undaunted, Lash continued to search for a publisher. He quickly found one at Doubleday, which gave him a "small contract." Two months after Lash completed his manuscript, Hammerskjold was dead and the world was hungry for news about the man. Lash's book was published in a dozen foreign languages. Suddenly, he could look past daily journalism. "There were two beneficiaries from Hammerskjold's death," he quips today. "Khruschev and Joe Lash...
...Lash, his biography of Hammerskjold was the beginning of a career as a biographer unmatched by contemporary American historians. Since his days as the chronicler of his class at City College, biography was just something that "wasn't all that hard for me," he says. "It was something I rather enjoyed doing," he recalls, "I don't mean to sound snooty in saying it," says the product of the Brooklyn slums, "but it just comes naturally...
...would dispute that statement. As a young radical hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1939, Lash became a special confidante of Eleanor Roosevelt. That friendship lasted until Eleanor's final days. Lash remembers running back to his room at the White House or Hyde Park after dinner to scribble down what he remembered from conversations with the first family...
With Eleanor's death in 1962, Lash quickly set down his personal memories. And when FDR Jr. went in search of an official biographer for his mother, he followed her unspoken advise and chose Lash for the job. The writer jumped at the chance. Almost 10 years later, Lash's winters in Hyde Park and the long hours with Eleanor's private papers culminated in the publication of Eleanor and Franklin. Critics hailed the work as an insightful biography of the first lady and, equally important, a ground-breaking study in the biography of relationships. Lash had maintained his objectivity...