Nick Kotz

Nathan K. "Nick" Kotz (September 16, 1932 – April 26, 2020) was an
Nick Kotz
American journalist, author, and historian.

His most recent book, The Harness Makers Dream: Nathan Kallison and
the Rise of South Texas, tells the story of Ukrainian immigrant Nathan
Kallison's journey to the United States. He is best known for his 2005 book
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the
Laws that Changed America[1] chronicling the roles of US President Lyndon
B. Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. in the passage of the 1964, 1965, and
1968 civil rights laws. Kotz won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in
1968 for his reporting of unsanitary conditions in many meat packing plants,
which helped ensure the passage of the Wholesome Meat Act.[2][3]

Life
Kotz was born in San Antonio, Texas. As a reporter for the Des Moines
Register and the Washington Post, and as a freelance writer, Nick Kotz won
at the 2014 National Book Festival
many of journalism's most important honors, including the Sigma Delta Chi
Award for Washington correspondence, the Raymond Clapper Memorial Born September 16, 1932
Award, and the first Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award. His study of San Antonio, Texas,
American military leadership won the National Magazine Award for public US
service. His book Wild Blue Yonder: Money, Politics, and the B-1 Bomber Died April 26, 2020
won the Olive Branch Award.[3] (aged 87)
Broad Run, Virginia,
Kotz's other books include A Passion For Equality: George Wiley and the US
Movement (with Mary Lynn Kotz); Let Them Eat Promises: The Politics of
Occupation Journalist, Author,
Hunger; and The Unions (with Haynes Johnson).
and Historian
A magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, Kotz did graduate Nationality American
study in international relations at the London School of Economics. After Alma mater Dartmouth College,
college, he served as a lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. London School of
Committed to education, he served as a distinguished adjunct professor at
Economics
the American University School of Communications and as a Senior
Journalist in Residence, for a semester, at Duke University. He was married Genre History
to Mary Lynn Kotz, a journalist and author of Rauschenberg: Art and Life; Notable The Harness Makers
and co-author of Upstairs at the White House: My Life With the First works Dream: Nathan
Ladies. Their son, Jack Mitchell Kotz, is a photographer. Kallison and the Rise
of South Texas,
Kotz died in April, 2020 as a result of an accident involving his automobile Judgment Days:
at his home.[4] Lyndon Baines
Johnson, Martin
Works Luther King Jr., and
the Laws That
Let them eat promises: the politics of hunger in America, Doubleday Changed America,
Anchor books, 1971 Wild Blue Yonder:
A Passion for Equality: George A. Wiley and the Movement, W. W. Money, Politics, and
Norton, Incorporated, 1977, ISBN 0-393-07517-6 the B-1 Bomber
 Wild blue yonder: money, politics, and the B-1 bomber, Pantheon Books, Notable Pulitzer Prize for
1988, ISBN 9780394557007 awards National Reporting,
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Olive Branch Award,
the Laws that Changed America (https://books.google.com/books?id=qo Sigma Delta Chi
9r4_rnrasC&pg=PR1). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. January 2006. pp. 1–. Award for
ISBN 0-618-64183-1. Washington
The Harness Maker's Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South correspondence,
Texas (https://books.google.com/books?id=dLUhAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT2). the Raymond
TCU Press. October 25, 2013. pp. 2–. ISBN 978-0-87565-593-2. Clapper Memorial
Award,
References Robert F. Kennedy
Memorial Award
1. Nick Kotz (2005), Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Spouse Mary Lynn Kotz
Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America, Houghton Mifflin
Company, New York, NY, ISBN 0-618-08825-3 Website

2. 1968 Pulitzer Prize Winners (http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1968) www.nickkotz.com (http://www.nickk

otz.com)
3. "Alumni, Students Honored at Annual Social Justice Awards Ceremony"
(http://www.dartmouth.edu/~vox/0506/0123/sja.html). Dartmouth
College. January 23, 2006. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
4. " "Nick" Kotz, author and journalist killed in accident" (https://www.fauquiernow.com/fauquier_news/article/fau
quier-author-journalist-nick-kotz-killed-in-accident-2020). FauquierNow.com. April 27, 2020. Retrieved
April 29, 2020.

External links
Official website (http://www.nickkotz.com)
Appearances (https://www.c-span.org/person/?1649) on C-SPAN

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