Talk:Joseph Alsop

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Alsop's homosexuality

Alsop is listed among LGBT writers, yet nothing is writen about his sexuality in the text. I think something should be added and the information cited.

Good point. Now added. Steve Casburn 04:43, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cold War Liberal

I think more discussion of Alsop's political views in the post-war era, beyond a passing reference to Vietnam, is merited. By that time, he had begun to develop the embittered and sardonic attitude today associated with neo-conservatives and is truly one their godfathers. Moreover, during the 1950s his vituperative anti-communist polemics at times were of a piece with the demagoguery of Joseph McCarthy, most notoriouysly in Alsop's attacks on General Stilwell, and to a lesser extent General Marshall, as part of the "Who Lost China" hysteria of that period. His connection with JFK may seem paradoxical, but actually it is not as Joseph Kennedy had developed similar views after having had an early falling out with FDR and was in fact a close friend of Joseph McCarthy, with his son Robert serving as his Senate counsel at one point.Tom Cod (talk) 06:51, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Why We Lost China"

In David Halberstam's "The Best and the Brightest," he discusses Captain Joseph Alsop's three-part series in the "Saturday Evening Post" called "Why We Lost China" as a turning point in the red-baiting of China hands that took place in the McCarthy period. He writes, "The Alsop articles began the process of legitimizing the issue: twenty years later, both Davies and Service could single out the articles as a key to the turning point; the "Post" articles took the issue from the radical fringe and gave it a respectability where it would be adopted by a Republican party badly in need of issues. It would be valuable to the Republicans but it would also be material for McCarthyism, and of the darker chapters of this American century " (pp. 115-116). 69.250.196.12 (talk) 21:52, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

External link to interview on nuclear policy?

Would an interview with Joseph Alsop from 1986 be useful here as an external link? Focus of conversation is nuclear weapons policy. http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_0C207D3533D64B69AFDF29384ABDEE09 (I helped with the site, so it would be conflict of interest for me to just add it.) Mccallucc (talk) 20:22, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

birth date

Most sources give it as October 11. What is the reference for October 10? Thisdaytrivia (talk) 19:59, 19 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Diet Book

He also wrote a low-carbohydrate diet book.

https://www.nickharvilllibraries.com/store/p1479/Drink%2C_Eat_and_be_Thin_by_Joseph_Alsop.html

Drsruli (talk) 07:26, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]