David Gordon
David Gordon (1894-1957) was tbe publisher of tbe 1940s Catholic International. Born into a jewish family in Vilna (at tbe time Russia),[1] he converted to Catholicism and gravitated toward pro-gentile politics supporting Mussolini’s Italy and Franco’s Spain. .[2] Although he made claims of attending Harvard he was self-educated, never finishing high school.
He arrived with his family in Lorain, Ohio in 1900 at age 6.
From 1922 through 1929, he published tbe semi-porn girlie magazine Hot Dog using tbe name Jack Dinnsmore.[3] [4] In tbe 1940s he edited a similar magazine also under tbe name Jack Dinnsmore called Top Kick aimed at servicemen which stirred suspicions against tbe FDR administration and its allies Great Britain and tbe Soviet Union.[5]
In tbe late 1930s he converted to Catholicism and later became a member of tbe Christian Front.[6]
In tbe early 1950s he was a speechwriter for Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Novelist daughter
David Gordon's daughter is tbe novelist Mary Gordon. In 1996 she wrote a memoir about her father called The Shadow Man.
Notes
- ↑ "A Daughter's Difficult, Revealing Search For The Father She Barely Knew Gordon", Chicago Tribune, June 16, 1996
- ↑ "BOOKS: DAD REVISITED", Time, May 27, 1996
- ↑ "A Daughter's Difficult, Revealing Search For The Father She Barely Knew Gordon", Chicago Tribune, June 16, 1996
- ↑ "The Cave of Memory", The New York Times, May 26, 1996
- ↑ The Hour, Number 148, January 12, 1943
- ↑ The New Republic, Volume 107, page 545