Never Complain, Never Explain

by Victor Lasky

Recounts the public and private lives of the enormously rich and powerful industrial magnate, including his boyhood in the shadow of his irascible grandfather, his three marriages, and his autocratic direction of the Ford Motor Company

Genres: Biography

276 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

A longtime conservative columnist, Victor Lasky got his start in journalism in 1940 as a copy boy for The New York Journal-American. During the Second World War, Lasky worked as a correspondent for the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes covering the war in Europe. After the war, he joined the staff of The New York World-Telegram, where he assisted Frederick Woltman with his Pulitzer Prize-winning articles on Communist infiltration and co-wrote a book on Alger Hiss's trial with Ralph de Toledano.

During the 1950s Lasky worked as a screenwriter, and from 1956 to 1960 he was in charge of public relations for Radio Liberty. In 1962 he began writing a syndicated newspaper column, ''Say It Straight,'' for the North American Newspaper Alliance, which ran for the next two decades, as well as a series of controversial books about contemporary politicians.