Frank Bray Gibney was an American journalist, editor, writer and scholar. Correspondent of Time

Time (magazine)

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, editor of Newsweek

Newsweek

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and Life

Life (magazine)

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, he was the vice chairman of the Board of Editors at Encyclopædia Britannica

Encyclopædia Britannica

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 and wrote several books, most notably about Japan

Japan

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. During World War II, he worked as a naval interrogator at Iroquois Point near Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor

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Gibney wrote and edited a number of books, including The Penkovsky Paper, which was alleged to have been commissioned by the CIA, and The Pacific Century, which was later adapted into an Emmy Award

Emmy Award

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-winning public television series

The Pacific Century

The Pacific Century was a 1992 PBS Emmy Award winning ten part documentary series narrated by Peter Coyote about the rise of the Pacific Rim economies. Alex Gibney was the writer for the series, and Frank Gibney, his father, wrote the companion volume, The Pacific Century: America and Asia in a...

. He was also the father of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney

Alex Gibney

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, and is interviewed in Alex's documentary film Taxi to the Dark Side

Taxi to the Dark Side

Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 documentary film directed by American filmmaker Alex Gibney, and produced by Eva Orner and Susannah Shipman, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature...

(2007).

He died from congestive heart failure

Congestive heart failure

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on April 9, 2006 in Santa Barbara, California.

Books by Frank Gibney

• Five Gentlemen of Japan: The Portrait of a Nation's Character (1953)
• The Frozen Revolution: Poland—A Study in Decay (1959)
• The Secret World (with Peter Deriabin, 1959)
• The Operators (1960)
• The Khruschev Pattern (1961)
• Japan: The Fragile Super Power (1975)
• Miracle By Design (1982)
• The Pacific Century: America and Asia in a Changing World (1992)
• Korea's Quiet Revolution: From Garrison State to Democracy (1993)