The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

He won the 1981 National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism and was a finalist for the same award in 1991. His father Hugh Morrow was a chief aide to Nelson Rockefeller.

He won the 1981 National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism and was a finalist for the same award in 1991. He is a former professor of journalism and Fellow of the University Professors at Boston University.