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Collection
Titre
Tad Szulc Collection of Interview Transcripts
Date(s)
- 1984-1986 (Production)
Importance matérielle
3 Boxes
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Journalist and commentator Tad Szulc was born in Warsaw, Poland on July 25, 1926 to Janina Baruch and Seweryn Szulc. In 1947, Szulc immigrated to the United States and became a naturalized citizen in 1954. Based in Spain, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, Szulc has had a long and distinguished career as a New York Times reporter and foreign correspondent.
Having attended the University of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro from 1943 to 1945, his first of many professional assignments was as a reporter for the Associated Press in Rio. In 1948 he married Marianne Carr, with whom he has two children: Nicole and Anthony. From 1949 to 1953, Szulc moved back to the United States where he served as United Nations correspondent for United Press International (UPI). Between 1953 and 1969, Szulc was a New York Times foreign correspondent throughout Europe, America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. In 1969 he was assigned to the newspaper's Washington Bureau.
Tad Szulc has written several books of fiction and nonfiction, including Twilight of the Tyrants (1959); The Cuban Invasion (with Karl Ernest Meyer, 1962); The Winds of Revolution (1963); Dominican Diary (1965); Latin America (1966); Bombs of Palomares (1967); The United States and the Caribbean (1971); Czechoslovakia since World War II (1971); Portrait of Spain (1972); Compulsive Spy: The Strange Career of E. Howard Hunt (1974); The Energy Crisis (1974); Innocents at Home: America in 1976 (1974); The Invasion of Czechoslovakia, August 1968 (1974); The Illusion of Peace: Foreign Policy in the Nixon Years (1978); Diplomatic Immunity: A Novel (1981); and Fidel: A Critical Portrait (1986).
Szulc has lectured on foreign affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He has conducted seminars for government agencies such as the Peace Corps, and he has participated in broadcast news in radio and television. Szulc has received numerous awards in recognition for his journalistic work, including the Maria Moors Cabot Gold Medal for the Advancement of International Friendship in the Americas from Columbia University (1959); Overseas Press Club citations and award for best magazine interpretation of foreign affairs (1966, 1974 8); Overseas Press Club award for best book on foreign affairs (1979, 1986); the Sigma Delta Distinguished Service Award (1968); the Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor, France (1983); and the Distinguished Medal from the World Business Council (1987).
Chronology
1926 July 25 Born in Warsaw, Poland
1943 Emigrated to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1943-1945 Attended the University of Brazil
1945-1946 Associated Press reporter, Rio de Janeiro
1947 Emigrated to the United States
1949-1953 UPI, United Nations correspondent
1953 New York Times correspondent
1955-1961 New York Times Latin American correspondent
1961-1965 New York Times Washington Bureau
1965-1968 New York Times correspondent, Spain and Portugal
1968-1969 New York Times correspondent, Eastern Europe
1969-1972 New York Times Washington Bureau
1973 Author and foreign policy commentator and visiting professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (Medford, Mass.)
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
The Tad Szulc Collection of Interview Transcripts includes the typescript transcripts of Tad Szulc's taped interviews with Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, and other government officials in Cuba and with Cuban exiles in Miami, Florida, from 1984 to 1985, in preparation for Szulc's book Fidel: A Critical Portrait (New York: Morrow, 1986).
Mode de classement
The Tad Szulc Collection is organized into two series.
Please see the Finding Aid/Inventory section of this guide for more detailed information.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
This collection is open for research.
Accès physique
Accès technique
Conditions de reproduction
Requests to publish or display materials from this collection require written permission from the rights owner. Please, contact chc@miami.edu for more information.
Preferred citation: Tad Szulc Collection of Interview Transcripts, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
Langue des documents
- espagnol
Écriture des documents
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Éléments d'acquisition et d'évaluation
Historique de la conservation
Source immédiate d'acquisition
Through the University of Miami's Graduate School for International Studies, Tad Szulc donated these materials to the Otto G. Richter Library in March 1988.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
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Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Selected materials from this collection have been digitized.
https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/chc0189
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Note de l'archiviste
Processed by Diana Gónzalez Kirby, August 1989. Finding aid updated by María R. Estorino, August 2003. Collection-level record created by Beata Bergen, July 2009. Updated by Rebeca Gonzalez, May 2021.
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
Mots-clés - Lieux
Mots-clés - Noms
- Castro, Fidel, 1926- (Sujet)