John d weaver biography
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“I was graduated from, college in June, ,” John D. Weaver writes, “and came home to Washington, D.C., to find the shabby environs of the Capitol swarming with jobless dock in frayed shirts, faded jeans, and overseas caps half-covering their thinning hair.” He talked to men and women of the bonus army and visited their camps; later this experience became the basis of a novel, Another Such Victory (Viking).
For further reading: B.E.F. , by Walter W. Waters, as told to William C. vit (John Day, ); The Crisis of the Old Order , by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (Houghton Mifflin, ); The Lean Years , by Irving Bernstein (Houghton Mifflin, ).
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John Weaver (political consultant)
American political consultant (born c. )
John Weaver (born c.e. )[1] is an American political consultant. He worked on the John McCainpresidential campaigns of and In between, he worked for a time for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.[2] He was also the chief strategist for the presidential campaign of Republican John Kasich.[3][4]
In , he co-founded The Lincoln Project, a super PAC opposed to the re-election of President Donald Trump in [5] He resigned from the organization in January , after he was accused of online harassment by 21 dock as well as offering anställda and professional favors in exchange for sex to at least 10 of the men.[6][7]
Early life and education
[edit]Weaver was born in Kermit, Texas; he studied at Texas A&M University, where he worked at The Battalion, the student newspaper.[8]
Career in politics
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John D. Weaver, 90; Author Righted a Racial Injustice
John D. Weaver, who wrote extensively about the history of Los Angeles and was a prominent figure on the Los Angeles literary scene for nearly half a century, has died. He was
Weaver, who had Alzheimer’s disease, died Wednesday at an assisted-care home in Las Vegas, where he had lived in recent years.
During his year writing career, the onetime Kansas City Star reporter served stints as West Coast editor of Holiday, and Travel and Leisure magazines and wrote hundreds of short stories, articles and book reviews for Harper’s, Atlantic Monthly, Saturday Evening Post, New West and other magazines.
He also wrote two novels and eight nonfiction books, including one that helped change history: “The Brownsville Raid,” a book that led to the exoneration of black soldiers who had been discharged without honor 64 years earlier.
A resident of Los Angeles from the s to the early s, Weaver wrote the entry on Los Angeles for the edition o