“While it is not uncommon for a president’s recognition to extend at a time of nationwide disaster,” he wrote in The Post, “the rise for Reagan seems as sharp as any but recorded.”
Mr. Sussman left The Post in 1987 to be the managing editor, nationwide information, for United Press International. But he left that troubled wire service after lower than a 12 months due to his disagreement with deliberate workers layoffs.
In 1988, his second e book, “What Americans Really Think and Why Our Politicians Pay No Attention,” examined the position of public opinion polls within the American political course of.
Barry Sussman was born on July 10, 1934, in Brooklyn. His father, Samuel, was a civil servant, and his mom, Esther (Rosen) Sussman, was a homemaker. After graduating from Brooklyn College in 1956 with a bachelor’s diploma, he labored for an promoting company and spent his spare time as a film reviewer.
He was employed for his first newspaper job in 1960, at The Bristol Herald Courier, a small day by day in Virginia, the place in 15 months he rose from reporter to managing editor. The Post employed him in 1965 as an editor on its state and suburban desk. He was named the D.C. editor in 1971.
“He had fantastic instincts and tranquility,” mentioned Lawrence Meyer, a former Post reporter who labored beneath Mr. Sussman. He recalled Mr. Sussman being intrigued someday by a brief merchandise in The Post a few contested election in a small city outdoors Washington.
“He mentioned, “There’s one thing occurring there, go have a look,’” Mr. Meyer mentioned, “and it turned out to be a very fascinating story a few cultural, generational battle reflective of one thing a lot bigger within the Black group in and round Washington.”
