Don Cook

Don Cook (August 8, 1920 — March 7, 1995) was one of the longest-serving, full-time, Paris-based American foreign correspondents of the twentieth century. He worked for the New York Herald Tribune (1943–1964) and the Los Angeles Times (1964–1989) consecutively for 46 years. His career spanned the close of World War II in Europe and the creation of today's Germany, the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the crises in Berlin, and the Ronald Reagan-Mikhail S. Gorbachev summits. Cook also wrote several books on history, current affairs and biography. Cook also contributed articles on diplomacy, foreign policy and nuclear disarmament for American and British magazines, among them Atlantic and Foreign Affairs.

Early life Cook was born August 8, 1920, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Early career His career began at St. Petersburg Times in Florida where he was a copy boy. He was then hired by TransRadio Press Service in Philadelphia and subsequently moved to its national office Washington, D.C. In 1943, the New York Herald Tribune hired him to cover the treasury and the White House and then sent him to London.

Diplomatic correspondent In 1965, he joined the Los Angeles Times in Paris as Bureau Chief and remained there for the next 23 years. Tough Little Army: A Correspondent's Dispatch on the Surprising Strength of Israel Floodtide In Europe (1963) GP Putnam The Warlords: Eisenhower. With Lord Michael Carver (1976) Little Brown Ten Men and History (1981) Doubleday Charles De Gaulle, A Biography (1985) GP Putnam Forging The Alliance (1989) Secker & Warburg The Long Fuse, How England Lost The American Colonies. (1996) Grove/Atlantic