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In 1975 he became the assistant editor of The Spectator, moving to the post of literary editor, which he occupied from 1977 to 1981. After a period as a reporter in South Africa, 1981-84, he became editor of the Londoner's Diary gossip column in the London Evening Standard, 1985-86. He was a Sunday Telegraph columnist 1987-91, freelance 1993-96; feature writer on the Daily Express, 1996-97; and has since written for The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, the Boston Globe, The American Conservative, and other publications on both sides of the Atlantic.
His book The Controversy of Zion won a National Jewish Book Award.
In 2003, Wheatcroft gave a unfavourable review to A Moral Reckoning, a controversial book by Daniel Goldhagen.
Category:1945 births Category:Alumni of New College, Oxford Category:The Guardian journalists Category:Daily Mail journalists Category:Living people Category:Old Gowers
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