Frank Gibney (1924–2006)
Auteur van Japan: The Fragile Superpower
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Frank Gibney, a veteran journalist and writer, is President of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College. He is the author of twelve books
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1924-09-21
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2006-03-12
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
- Opleiding
- Yale University
- Beroepen
- journalist
editor
professor - Organisaties
- Time
Newsweek
Life
Show Business Illustrated
Encyclopedia Britannica
Pomona College - Korte biografie
- He was married three times: first to Harriet Harvey, then to Harriet Suydam, then to Hiroko Doi.
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Gibney died on April 9, 2006 at 81; from his LA Times obit:
"In 1953 he published his first book on Asia, Five Gentlemen of Japan. In profiling a farmer, a former vice admiral in the Imperial Navy, a newspaperman, the foreman of a steel mill and Emperor Hirohito, Gibney offered an intimate glimpse into postwar Japanese society.
"He knew each of his subjects personally, except for Hirohito, and portrayed even the emperor in familiar terms: 'a slightly stooped, mustached gentleman of a middle age, wearing a crushed brown hat.'
"Elizabeth Gray Vining, former tutor of Crown Prince Akihito, Hirohito's son, praised the book's 'keen and careful analysis' in a New York Times review. 'Their portraits are drawn with sympathy and insight; none of them is caricature,' she said of Gibney's profiles of the five men."… (meer)
"In 1953 he published his first book on Asia, Five Gentlemen of Japan. In profiling a farmer, a former vice admiral in the Imperial Navy, a newspaperman, the foreman of a steel mill and Emperor Hirohito, Gibney offered an intimate glimpse into postwar Japanese society.
"He knew each of his subjects personally, except for Hirohito, and portrayed even the emperor in familiar terms: 'a slightly stooped, mustached gentleman of a middle age, wearing a crushed brown hat.'
"Elizabeth Gray Vining, former tutor of Crown Prince Akihito, Hirohito's son, praised the book's 'keen and careful analysis' in a New York Times review. 'Their portraits are drawn with sympathy and insight; none of them is caricature,' she said of Gibney's profiles of the five men."… (meer)
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