Dominic Green (writer and musician)

This article is about the writer and musician. For other persons named Dominic Green, see Dominic Green (disambiguation).

Dominic Green (born 1970) is a British historian, columnist and musician. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts, he is editor of the US edition of The Spectator[1] and a commissioning editor of The Critic.[2] He is a columnist and film reviewer for The Spectator, and a columnist for The Daily Telegraph.[3] He also writes frequently on books and arts for The Wall Street Journal,[4] The New Criterion,[5] The Spectator (UK),[6] Standpoint,[7] The Literary Review,[8] and The Oldie.[9] He has also written for The Atlantic,[10] Commentary,[11] The Economist, First Things,[12] The Weekly Standard,[13] CapX[14] and the antiquities magazine Minerva.[15]

Biography

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Green is the son of the saxophonist and writer Benny Green and actress Toni Kanal, and the brother of saxophonist and BBC Radio presenter Leo Green. He read English Literature[16] at St John's College, Oxford. Subsequently, he read for an AM in Jewish Studies at Harvard University, and a PhD in Comparative History at Brandeis University, where he was the Mandel Fellow in the Humanities.[17]

Author

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Green is the author of a biography of his father, Benny Green: Words and Music (2000), and editor of the collection Such Sweet Thunder: Benny Green on Jazz (2001). His first history book, The Double Life of Dr. Lopez: Spies, Shakespeare and the Plot to Poison Elizabeth I (2003) was described in The Sunday Times of London as 'popular history at its best'. Green's second history book, Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad 1869-1899 (2007; UK title Armies of God) was acclaimed in media as varied as Foreign Affairs and Entertainment Weekly. In 2022, Green wrote The Religious Revolution: The Birth of Modern Spirituality, 1848-1898 which was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Political and social commentary

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Green writes political and social commentary for the US edition of The Spectator, the New York Post, the Jewish Chronicle, the Daily Telegraph, and The Wall Street Journal. Green's opinion pieces include frequent criticism of President Joe Biden as "senile" or mentally impaired[18][19] and having "low energy",[20] praise for President Donald Trump's policies[21] and victory "on points" in the 2020 United States presidential debates,[22] Green criticised the FBI's criminal investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Prince Andrew for failing to act quickly enough.[23][24][25]

Jewish identity

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Green has provoked controversy with articles on Jewish identity, criticising Joe Biden's agenda as "bad for the Jews"[26] In response to Green's analysis, David Aaronovitch said that Green's politics are "Lindberghian" and warned that Green's characterisation of Jews is inaccurate and itself fosters antisemitism. Aaronovitch took special issue with Green criticising Biden for formally recognising the Armenian genocide, since it damaged relations with Turkey, arguing that all Jews should support recognising genocides against people, regardless of impact.[27]

Musician

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Green is a professional jazz guitarist and arranger. Artists he has worked with include Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello, Dionne Warwick, Sacha Distel, Big Jay McNeely, Benny Green, Deniece Williams, Bettye Lavette, Ray Gelato, John Dankworth, Doris Troy, Kym Mazelle, Gary Baldwin Portishead, Colin Edwyn (Porcupine Tree), Danny Farrant (Buzzcocks), The Karminsky Experience Inc., and the James Taylor Quartet.

Television

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  • Queen Elizabeth's Secret Agents (BBC/PBS, 2017); nominated for a Royal Television Society award, 2018.

Bibliography

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  • Benny Green: Words and Music, London, London House, 2000, ISBN 1-902809-39-4, 252p.
  • The Double Life of Doctor Lopez: Spies, Shakespeare and the Plot to Poison Elizabeth I, London, Century, 2003, ISBN 0-7126-1539-3, 402p.
  • Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1898, Free Press, January 2007, ISBN 0-7432-8071-7, 304p. (also known as "Armies of God: Islam and Empire on the Nile, 1869-1899")[28]
  • Religious Revolution: The Birth of Modern Spirituality, 1848-1898. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2022

Edited

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References

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  1. ^ "Dominic Green, Author at Spectator USA". Spectator USA. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  2. ^ "About The Critic". The Critic Magazine. 31 October 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Dominic Green". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  4. ^ Green, Dominic (30 June 2020). "Opinion | Imagining the Museum's Smaller Future". Wsj.com. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  5. ^ "Articles by Dominic Green | The New Criterion". Newcriterion.com. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  6. ^ "Demystifying freemasonry". Spectator.co.uk. 8 August 2020. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
  7. ^ "Author: Dominic Green". Standpointmag.co.uk. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  8. ^ "Literary Review - For People Who Devour Books". Literary Review. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  9. ^ "Lost between Britain and New England". The Oldie. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Dominic Green". The Atlantic. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  11. ^ "Dominic Green, author at Commentary Magazine". Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  12. ^ "Authors". First Things. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  13. ^ "Dominic Green". Washington Examiner. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  14. ^ "Dominic Green, Author at CapX". Capx.co. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  15. ^ "The archaeologist of artists". Minerva Magazine. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  16. ^ Buchan, James (21 July 2007). "Children of empire". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  17. ^ Haywood, Ian; Seed, John, eds. (2012). The Gordon Riots: Politics, Culture and Insurrection in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain (PDF). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. ix. ISBN 978-0-521-19542-3.
  18. ^ Green, Dominic (1 May 2020). "Can we trust Joe Biden with the nuclear codes? We need to ask more questions about Geriatric Joe". The Spectator. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  19. ^ Green, Dominic (25 March 2021). "Joe Biden's presidency is a reality TV series in a care home". The Spectator. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  20. ^ Green, Dominic (29 September 2020). "Is Joe Biden on drugs? If not, why not?". The Spectator. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  21. ^ Green, Dominic (18 September 2020). "Pompeo's principles: Talking policy, paradigms and turning Trump's instincts into reality". The Spectator. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  22. ^ Green, Dominic (30 September 2020). "Trump is now the candidate of normality, and that's why American democracy is broken". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  23. ^ Green, Dominic (21 July 2020). "Alan Dershowitz: 'We will get her…she will end up in prison for perjury'". The Spectator. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  24. ^ Green, Dominic (15 June 2020). "Prince Andrew fires back at Department of Justice". The Spectator. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  25. ^ Green, Dominic (3 July 2020). "Five questions for Ghislaine Maxwell". The Spectator. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  26. ^ Green, Dominic (29 April 2021). "Biden started as he means to go on and it will be bad for Jews". Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  27. ^ Aaronovitch, David (14 May 2021). "I know what is really bad for the Jews, and it is not Joe Biden". Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  28. ^ "Dominic Green". David Higham. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
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