Pegler, Westbrook

Pegler, Westbrook

▪ American columnist
in full  James Westbrook Pegler 
born , August 2, 1894, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
died June 24, 1969, Tucson, Arizona

      American columnist whose continual crusades, combined with an acerbic, original style, attracted nationwide attention.

      Pegler was the son of a star reporter from Minneapolis and Chicago, and he was still attending a Chicago high school when he started working for United Press (UP) in various bureaus around the country. Six years later, in 1916, Pegler was assigned to the agency's London bureau. After serving in the U.S. Navy in 1918–19, he wrote and edited sports material for United News (1919–25) and the Chicago Tribune (1925–33). Beginning in 1933 he wrote a syndicated column, “Fair Enough,” for the New York World-Telegram. In 1941 he received a Pulitzer Prize for exposing labour racketeering. In the column “As Pegler Sees It,” introduced by William Randolph Hearst's King Features Syndicate in 1944, Pegler attacked the Supreme Court, the Newspaper Guild, the wealthy, the U.S. tax system, unions, and many national figures, among others. In 1954 Pegler was sued by the subject of one such attack, the author Quentin Reynolds, in a famous libel trial. Reynolds won $200,000 in punitive damages, then a record award in such a trial. Publication of the column ended in 1962. Pegler then began writing for the right-wing American Opinion; that publication quickly dropped him, however, as Pegler's columns became increasingly vituperative and critical of Jews.

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