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American columnist
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Male
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Birth:
5 January 1932(Philadelphia, USA)
Death:
27 December 2019(Washington, D.C., USA)
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Harvard University
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Biography
Introduction
Neal Rippey Peirce (January 5, 1932 – December 27, 2019) was an American columnist, and the author of several books about American politics. He was the political editor of the Congressional Quarterly from 1960 to 1969, and a co-founder and contributing editor of the National Journal from 1969 to 1997. He wrote a weekly column for The Washington Post Writers Group from 1978 to 2013.
On December 27, 2019, Peirce died in Washington D.C. from glioblastoma.
Selected works
- Peirce, Neal R. (1968). Electoral college. The People's President: The Electoral College in American History and the Direct‐Vote Alternative. New York: Simon and Schuster.
- Peirce, Neal R. (1972). Megastates of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Ten Great States. New York: W.W. Norton Company. ISBN 9780393054583. OCLC 472885901.
- Peirce, Neal R.; Hagstrom, Jerry (1983). The Book of America: Inside Fifty States Today. New York: W.W. Norton Company. ISBN 9780393016390. OCLC 317181631.