The last tycoon ken auletta biography

Ken Auletta (born April 23, 1942) is an American writer, journalist and media critic for The New Yorker.

Early life and education

Auletta grew up in Brooklyn, the son of an Italian-American father and a Jewish-American mother.

The last tycoon ken auletta biography

He attended Abraham Lincoln High School there.

Auletta is a graduate of State University of New York at Oswego (SUNY Oswego) where he was a member of Sigma Tau Chi fraternity.

Writing career

Auletta worked in government and on several political campaigns, and taught and trained Peace Corps volunteers.

He was also the first executive director of the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation. In 1974, Auletta became the chief political correspondent for the New York Post.

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Following that, he was a staff writer and weekly columnist for the Village Voice, and then a contributing editor at New York magazine. He started contributing to The New Yorker in 1977. Between 1977 and 1993, he wrote a weekly political column fo