Lansing Lamont Explained

Lansing Lamont
Birth Date:13 March 1930
Birth Place:New York City, U.S.
Death Place:New York City, U.S.
Education:Milton Academy
Harvard University
Harvard Business School
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Spouse:Ada Jung Lamont
Children:4
Relatives:Thomas Stilwell Lamont (father)
Thomas W. Lamont (grandfather)

Lansing ("Lans" or "Lance") Lamont (March 13, 1930, Manhattan – September 3, 2013, Manhattan)[1] was a journalist and author of several books. He is known for his best-selling book Day of Trinity (1965).[2] [3] [4]

Biography

Born into a wealthy family of bankers, Lansing Lamont's father was Thomas Stilwell Lamont (1899–1967), a vice-chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co.[5] Lansing's grandfather was Thomas William Lamont (1870–1948), a J. P. Morgan partner since 1911.[3]

Lansing Lamont attended secondary school in Massachusetts at Milton Academy, where he graduated in 1948. In 1945 his brother Thomas William Lamont II (1924–1945) was a 2nd lieutenant aboard the final patrol of USS Snook (SS-279), lost at sea. Lansing Lamont graduated in 1952 from Harvard University, where he was part of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.[3] He briefly attended Harvard Business School[6] but left without a degree. He served for three and a half years[7] from 1954 to 1957 in the U.S. Army[1] and attained the rank of 1st lieutenant.[8] He graduated in 1958 with a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[3] He was from 1958 to 1959 a reporter for The Washington Star and from 1959 to 1960 the Congressional correspondent for the Worcester Evening Gazette,[1] as well as a reporter for other New England newspapers. He then became in 1961 a staff member of Time Magazine and worked as a national correspondent stationed in Washington, D.C. He wrote about the assassinations in 1963 of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and in 1968 of Robert Francis Kennedy. From 1969 to 1971 he was the deputy chief of Time Magazines London bureau. Subsequently he was from 1971 to 1973 the magazine's chief Canadian correspondent and from 1973 to 1974 the magazine's United Nations bureau chief and writer for the weekly World Affairs section.[3] He was a frequent contributor to The New York Times op-ed page and appeared as a guest lecturer and panelist on television and radio shows in the U.S.A. and Canada.[7]

He was married to Ada Jung Lamont for 59 years. Upon his death he was survived by his widow, two sons, two daughters, and twelve grandchildren.[1] A memorial service was held at St. James' Episcopal Church in Manhattan.[8]

Books

as editor:

References

  1. News: Lansing Lamont, Journalist and Historian of Atomic Bomb, Dies at 83. Vitello, Paul. Paul Vitello. September 15, 2013. New York Times.
  2. Book: Connelly, Mark. 2012. The Sundance Writer: A Rhetoric, Reader, Research Guide, and Handbook. 165. 978-1133713715 .
  3. News: Lansing Lamont, journalist, dies at 83. Bernstein, Adam. September 10, 2013. Washington Post.
  4. Web site: Review of Day of Trinity by Lansing Lamont. Kirkus Reviews. July 1965.
  5. News: Thomas Lamont '21 Dies, Was Corporation Fellow. April 11, 1967. The Harvard Crimson.
  6. Book: Fleeting Moments. Fischer, Gordon. 2008. 88. 9781326474881 .
  7. News: Obituary. Lansing Lamont. September 13, 2013. Sheboygan Press.
  8. Web site: Tribute to Chairman of ATBL. October 13, 2013. The American Trust for the British Library.
  9. Book: Karson, Marc. Review of Campus shock: a firsthand report on college life today by Lansing Lamont. https://books.google.com/books?id=icsADgAAQBAJ&pg=PT418. 9781524532604 . An Unrepentant Liberal: Collected Writings 1951-2007 . 20 January 2017 . Xlibris Corporation . 2nd page of review 3rd page of review
  10. Web site: Review of Breakup: the coming end of Canada and the stakes for America by Lansing Lamont. Publishers Weekly. August 1, 1994.

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