Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg (born June 10, 1942) is an author, editor and journalist. He has been the chief editor of seven publications, most recently Broad Street Review , an independent cultural arts website he launched in December 2005 and edited for eight years. He is also the author of 12 non-fiction books.

Biography

From 2000 to 2004 Rottenberg was editor of Family Business, an international quarterly magazine dealing with family-owned companies. From 1996 to 1998 he was editor of the Philadelphia Forum, a weekly Philadelphia opinion paper that he founded.^[1] In 1993 he created Seven Arts, a monthly magazine based in Philadelphia. From 1981 to 1993 Rottenberg edited the Welcomat, a weekly opinion forum, later known as Philadelphia Weekly.^[2]

Rottenberg wrote an editorial page column for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1978 to 1997. He has written more than 300 articles for such magazines as Town & Country, Reader's Digest, The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, Civilization, American Benefactor, Personal Finance - Bloomberg, TV Guide, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and Chicago. He served as a consultant in 1981 when Forbes launched its annual "Forbes 400″ list of wealthiest Americans. Rottenberg's syndicated film commentaries appeared in monthly city magazines around the U.S. from 1971 to 1983.^[2]

Rottenberg is credited with having been the first journalist to use the word yuppie in print, writing for Chicago magazine in 1980.^[3]

Earlier in his career Rottenberg was executive editor of Philadelphia Magazine (1972–75), managing editor of Chicago Journalism Review (1970–72), a reporter with The Wall Street Journal (1968–70), and editor of the Commercial-Review, a daily newspaper in Portland, Indiana (1964–68).^[2]

Rottenberg is a native of New York City. He graduated from the Fieldston School in 1960 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, a piano teacher. Their two grown daughters live and work in New York City.^[4]

Publications

• Finding Our Fathers, a guide to tracing Jewish ancestors (Random House,1977)
• Fight On, Pennsylvania, a college football history (1985)
• Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, the history of a Philadelphia law firm (1988)
• Main Line Wasp, the memoirs of Philadelphia civic leader W. Thacher Longstreth (1990); , (,
• Revolution on Wall Street, a chronicle of the U.S. securities industry (W.W. Norton, 1993)
• Middletown Jews, an oral history of the Jews of Muncie, Indiana (Indiana University Press), 1997)
• The Inheritor's Handbook, Bloomberg Press, (1998)
• The Man Who Made Wall Street, a biography of banker Anthony Drexel University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001( Archived 2014-01-21 at the Wayback Machine
• In the Kingdom of Coal, a narrative history of the U.S. coal industry as seen through the eyes of two families. Routledge, (2003) ^[1]
• Death of a Gunfighter, a biography of Pony Express superintendent Jack Slade (Westholme, 2008) Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
• The Outsider: Albert M. Greenfield and the Fall of the Protestant Establishment, published in 2014 by Temple University Press.
• The Education of a Journalist: My 70 Years on the Frontiers of Free Speech, published in 2022 by Redmount Press.

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