FORA.tv Speaker - Godfrey Hodgson

Godfrey Hodgson has worked as a newspaper and magazine journalist; as a television reporter, documentary maker and anchor; as a university teacher and lecturer; and as the author of a dozen books about U.S. politics and recent history, including An American Melodrama (co-authored with Lewis Chester and Bruce Page), an account of the U.S. presidential election of 1968; America in Our Time, a history of the U.S. in the 1960s; The World Turned Right Side Up, a history of American conservatism in the 20th Century; and most recently, a biography of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, The Gentleman from New York. He is a visiting journalism professor at City University in London and has just retired as director of the Reuters Foundation Programme at Oxford University.