George Bailey (journalist)

George Bailey (1919 in Chicago – 2001 in Munich) was an American journalist and writer who spent almost 60 years in Europe, most of them in Germany.

He is best known for his book Germans, The Biography of an Obsession,[1] in which he interweaves the political, the historical and his own personal experience of 45 years of living and working in Germany.

Lewis,[2] he spoke several languages fluently, including German, Russian, French, Italian and Hungarian.

A correspondent for American Broadcasting Company and The Reporter (magazine), he also wrote for numerous other newspapers and periodicals, was editor for Kontinent, Springer, Berlin, and was director of Radio Liberty from 1982 to 1985.

The George Bailey Collection is at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University [4]