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Share: Richard Reeves is a renowned presidential scholar and award-winning political filmmaker. During his quarter century of syndicating his columns to more than 100 newspapers across the country, he has watched and written about the comings and goings of six U.S. presidents.

He is the author of the widely referenced best-sellers "President Nixon: Alone in the White House" (October 2001) and "President Kennedy: Profile of Power," which won several national awards and was named the Best Book of 1993 by Time magazine.

Reeves' other best-selling books include "Convention and American Journey: Travelling with Tocqueville in Search of Democracy in America." His weekly column has been distributed by Universal Press Syndicate since 1979 and appears in such newspapers as the Los Angeles Times, The Denver Post and Dallas Morning News. He is a former chief political correspondent of The New York Times and has written extensively for numerous magazines including, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire and New York. He is also the author of "Family Travels: Around the World in 30 Days" and was a columnist for Travel and Leisure for six years.

He is a visiting professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and the former Regents Professor of Political Science at UCLA. He has also taught political writing at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 1998, he won the Carey McWilliams Award of the American Political Science Association for distinguished contributions to the understanding of American politics. He was the Goldman Lecturer on American Civilization and Government at the Library of Congress that year; the lectures were published by Harvard University Press under the title "What the People Know: Freedom and the Press." He is the co-editor of the textbook "Do the Media Govern?" published by Sage.

Reeves has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist and juror and has won a number of print journalism awards. In 1998, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.

He has made six television films and won all of television's major documentary awards: the Emmy for "Lights, Camera...Politics!" for ABC News; the Columbia-DuPont Award for "Struggle for Birmingham" for PBS; and the George Foster Peabody Award for "Red Star over Khyber" for PBS.

Reeves' other books include: "Running in Place: How Bill Clinton Disappointed America" (1996); "The Reagan Detour" (1985); "Passage to Peshawar"(1983); "Jet Lag" (1981); and "A Ford, Not a Lincoln" (1975).

He is married to Catherine O'Neill, founder of the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children and director of the United Nations office in Washington. They have five children.