Max Holland
Max Holland is an American journalist, author, and the editor of Washington Decoded, an internet newsletter on United States history that began publishing March 11, 2007. He is currently a contributing editor to The Nation and The Wilson Quarterly, and sits on the editorial advisory board of the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. His articles have appeared in The Atlantic, American Heritage, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, Studies in Intelligence, the Journal of Cold War Studies, Reviews in American History, and online at History News Network.
Holland's published books include: Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat ; The Kennedy Assassination Tapes: The White House Conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson Regarding the Assassination, the Warren Commission, and the Aftermath ; The CEO Goes to Washington: Negotiating the Halls of Power ; and When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America. In 2011, he was the lead consultant for a National Geographic Channel documentary about the assassination of John F. Kennedy that premiered in November 2011, entitled JFK: The Lost Bullet. He appeared in the 2022 documentary The Assassination & Mrs. Paine.
In 2001, Holland won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, bestowed jointly by Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, for the book that became The Kennedy Assassination Tapes. That same year he won a Studies in Intelligence Award from the Central Intelligence Agency. Holland lives in Washington, D.C.
Holland is a 1972 graduate of Antioch College.
Awards and fellowships
- 1990 - Fellowship. National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C.
- 1991 - Fellowship. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
- 1998 - Fellowship. John Nicolas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization, Brown University, Providence, RI.
- 2001 - J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. Columbia University School of Journalism and Harvard University Nieman Foundation.
- 2001 - Studies in Intelligence Award. Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency.
- 2004 - Moody Research Grant. Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation, Austin, TX.
Selected publications
Articles
- The Wilson Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 22–42..
- Studies in Intelligence, no. 45, no. 5. Published by the Central Intelligence Agency.
- Studies in Intelligence, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 15–30. Published by the Central Intelligence Agency.
- Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 36–73. The MIT Press..
Books
- When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America. Boston, Ma.: Harvard Business School Press..
- The CEO Goes to Washington: Negotiating the Halls of Power. Knoxville, Tenn.: Whittle Direct Books..
- Washington, D.C.: Beard Books..
- The Kennedy Assassination Tapes: The White House Conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson Regarding the Assassination, the Warren Commission, and the Aftermath. New York: Alfred Knopf..
- Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas..
- College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press..
Works cited
- "Max Holland." Contemporary Authors Online. 2006. Biography Resource Center. Thomson Gale. 25 Sep. 2006
- "Random House: Authors: Max Holland." Random House. 2006. Random House, Inc.. 19 Sep 2006.