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John Rensselaer Chamberlain (October 28, 1903 – April 9, 1995) was an American journalist, business and economic historian, syndicated columnist and literary critic. He was dubbed "one of America’s most trusted book reviewers" by the classical liberal and slightly libertarian magazine ''The Freeman''.〔Opitz, Edmund A., "A Reviewer Remembered: John Chamberlain 1903–1995," ''The Freeman'', June, 1995, vol. 45, iss. 6.〕 == Early life == Born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1903, John Chamberlain graduated from Yale University in 1925,〔 where he was chairman of the campus humor magazine ''The Yale Record''.〔Carnes, Marc C., ed. (2005) ''American National Biography: Supplement 2''. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 84.〕 He began his career in journalism at the ''New York Times'' in 1926, and he later served there as both an editor and book reviewer, writing the daily book review for the ''New York Times'' for several years during the 1930s.〔 Later, he worked on the staff at ''Scribner's'' and ''Harper's'' magazines.〔 Serving on the editorial staffs of ''Fortune'' (1936–1941) and ''Life'' (1941–1950),〔 for a time he wrote the editorials for ''Life'' under the direction of Henry Luce, the founder of Time, Inc. Chamberlain was a member of the Dewey Commission and a contributor to ''Not Guilty: the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials'' (1938) by John Dewey. For most of this period, Chamberlain was, in his own words, "a New York literary liberal" involved in political causes of the Left.〔Chamberlain, ''A Life With the Printed Word'', p. 65.〕 He also taught journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where his students included the noted journalists Marguerite Higgins, Elie Abel and Edith Efron.〔Chamberlain, pp. 93–94.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Chamberlain (journalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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