Jonathan Worth Daniels

Jonathan Worth Daniels 1902-81, American newspaper editor and author, b. Raleigh, N.C. In 1925 he joined the staff of the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, edited by his father, Josephus Daniels. He edited the paper (1933-1942) while his father was ambassador to Mexico, and succeeded to the editorship after Josephus Daniels's death in 1948. The paper reflected his Southern liberal views. Daniels held various official posts, including administrative assistant to President F. D. Roosevelt (1943-45) and U.S. member (1947-53) of the United Nations subcommittee on prevention of discrimination and protection of minorities. He contributed widely to periodicals and wrote a novel, Clash of Angels (1930); reportorial books, A Southerner Discovers the South (1938) and Frontier on the Potomac (1946); a biography of Truman (1950); and several histories, including The Time Between the Wars: Armistice to Pearl Harbor (1966).

Daniels, Jonathan [Worth] (1902–81), North Carolina newspaper editor, a spokesman for progressive ideas in the South, whose books include A Southerner Discovers the South (1938); Tar Heels (1941); The Man of Independence (1950), a life of Truman; The End of Innocence (1954), recollections of the political career of his father, Josephus Daniels; lives of John S. Mosby, Stonewall Jackson, and Robert E. Lee; The Time Between the Wars (1966), an intimate history of the Harding to F.D. Roosevelt era; The Randolphs of Virginia (1972); and White House Witness, 1942–45 (1975), about his times as administrative assistant and press secretary to F.D. Roosevelt and in several posts under Truman.