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Max Holland

Former Fellow

    Term

    September 10, 1990 — May 31, 1991

    Professional affiliation

    Editor, Washington Decoded

    Full Biography

    https://www.maxholland.info/

    Max Holland is a journalist, author, and editor of Washington Decoded, an online publication.

                  A 1972 graduate of Antioch College, he sits on the editorial advisory board of the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. He is the author, editor, or co-author of six books, most recently Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat (University Press of Kansas, March 2012) and Blind over Cuba: The Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis (Texas A&M University Press, September 2012).

        His articles have appeared in a variety of general and scholarly publications, including TheAtlantic, Newsweek, The Weekly Standard, American Heritage, The Nation, TheNew York Times, TheWashington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, Studies in Intelligence, the Journal of Cold War Studies, Reviews in American History, and online at Politico, the Daily Beast, History News Network, and Real Clear History. He has also received numerous grants in support of his research and writing, including fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, National Endowment for the Humanities, German Marshall Fund, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

         In 2001, Holland won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, bestowed jointly by Harvard University's Nieman Foundation and the Columbia University School of Journalism, for a forthcoming narrative history of the Warren Commission, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf. That same year he won a Studies in Intelligence Award from the Central Intelligence Agency, the first writer working outside the US government to be so recognized. In 1989, Business Week named his first book, When the Machine Stopped, one of the top ten business books of the year.

    Major Publications

    • A Need to Know: A Political and Cultural History of the Kennedy Assassination (New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, forthcoming) Afterword to Keith Olson’s book
    • Blind Over Cuba: The Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, September 2012), with David M. Barrett
    • Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat (Lawrence, KN: University Press of Kansas, March 2012)
    • Strategic Intelligence, Volume 2: The Intelligence Cycle, The Flow of Secret Information from Overseas to the Highest Councils of Government (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007), chapter on “The Politics of Intelligence Post-Mortems” in five-volume series edited by Loch Johnson
    • The Presidential Recordings, Lyndon B. Johnson: The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power, November 22, 1963—January 1964, Volume 1 (New York, NY: W.W. Norton, May 2005) 3
    • The Kennedy Assassination Tapes: The White House Conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson Regarding the Assassination, the Warren Commission, and the Aftermath (New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, September 2004)
    • From Industry to Alchemy: Burgmaster, A Machine Tool Company (Washington, DC: Beard Books, 2002)
    • The CEO Goes to Washington: Negotiating the Halls of Power (Knoxville, TN: Whittle Direct Books, 1994)
    • When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1989)