Stephen Koss
Stephen Koss (1940 – 25 October 1984) was an American historian specialising in Britain.
Koss was a professor of history from 1978 at Columbia University in New York,[1] where he had completed his doctorate; the doctoral thesis was turned into his first book John Morley at the India Office, 1905–1910 published in 1969,[2] the same year as his biography of R. B. Haldane. He was also a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.[3] He died as a result of complications following heart surgery.[1]
Koss is best remembered for a two volume work The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain (1981, 1984), respectively covering the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Neal Ascherson, reviewing the second volume in 1985, wrote: "Koss was the archive-cruncher of his age. But he had another gift, which was to make the imparting of densely-packed information stylish, readable, often mockingly witty."[4]
A tribute volume appeared in 1987: The Political Culture of Modern Britain: Studies in Memory of Stephen Koss, edited by J. M. W. Bean, with a foreword by John Gross (London: Hamilton).
References
- ^ a b Berger, Joseph (27 October 1984). "Dr. Stephen Koss, Expert On History". New York Times. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ^ F. M. Leventhal "Changing Fortunes in Fleet Street", Journal of British Studies, 24:4, October 1985, pp.490-495, 490
- ^ Dennis Griffiths (ed.) The Encyclopedia of the British Press 1492–1992, London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p.355
- ^ Neal Ascherson "Newspapers of the Consensus", London Review of Books, 7:3, 21 February 1985, pp.3-5, 3. The quote is from the (freely available) opening of the article online here [1].
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