Thomas Whiteside was an American journalist

Journalist

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Born in Berwick-Upon-Tweed

Berwick-upon-Tweed

Berwick-upon-Tweed or simply Berwick is a town in the county of Northumberland and is the northernmost town in England, on the east coast at the mouth of the River Tweed. It is situated 2.5 miles south of the Scottish border....

, Whiteside studied at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

. During World War II, he worked for the Office of War Propaganda, compiling reports on Axis propaganda. His work appeared in the Newsweek, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. He was instrumental in publicizing the damage of Agent Orange

Agent Orange

Agent Orange is the code name for one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. Vietnam estimates 400,000 people were killed or maimed, and 500,000 children born with birth...

. He died in West Cornwall, Connecticut in 1997.

Works

• The relaxed sell, Oxford University Press, 1954
• The big puff, Constable, 1955
• The tunnel under the Channel, Simon and Schuster, 1962
• Alone through the dark sea, Braziller, 1964, ISBN 9780807602751
• An agent in place: the Wennerström affair, Viking Press, 1966 (reprint, Ballantine Books, 1983, ISBN 9780345303264)
• Twiggy and Justin, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968, ISBN 9780374279806
• Defoliation, Ballantine Books, 1970, ISBN 9780345018700
• The withering rain: America's herbicidal folly, Dutton, 1971, ISBN 9780525235750
• Selling death: cigarette advertising and public health, Liveright, 1971, ISBN 9780871405418
• The Investigation of Ralph Nader, Pocket Books (December 1972), ISBN 9780671782498
• The Pendulum and the Toxic Cloud: The Course of Dioxin Contamination, Yale University Press (September 10, 1979), ISBN 9780300022834
• The Blockbuster Complex: Conglomerates, Show Business, and Book Publishing, Wesleyan University Press, 1980, ISBN 978-0819550576

External links

• Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?, iUniverse, 2005, ISBN 9780595358250