Jack J. Beatty (born May 15, 1945)^[1] is a writer, senior editor of The Atlantic,^[2] and news analyst for On Point, the national NPR news program.

Born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Beatty attended Boston Latin School, Boston State College, and the University of Massachusetts Boston. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.^[1][3]

• 1990: Guggenheim Fellowship^[4]
• 1993: American Book Award
• 1993: L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)
• Poynter Fellow at Yale University
• Two Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research grants
• William Allen White Award for Criticism
• Olive Branch Award for an Atlantic article on arms control

• Beatty, Jack (1992). The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0201175991.
  • — (2000). The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958 (Paperback ed.). New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780306810022.
• — (August 1996). "A Race Too Far?". Politics. The Atlantic Monthly. 278 (2): 21–25.^[5]
• Jack Beatty, ed. (2001). Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America. Broadway Books. ISBN 978-0-7679-0352-3.
• "A Miserable Failure", The Atlantic, September 24, 2003
• Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865–1900. Random House. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4000-3242-6.
• Jack Beatty, ed. (2004). Pols: Great Writers on American Politicians from Bryan to Reagan. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1-58648-015-8.
• Beatty, Jack; Drucker, Peter Ferdinand (1998). The World According to Peter Drucker. The Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-83801-4.
• The Lost History of 1914: How the Great War Was Not Inevitable. London; Berlin [u.a.]: Bloomsbury, 2012. ISBN 978-1-408-82796-3.

• "Interview with Jack Beatty", Claremont college
• Hillkirk, Scott (2001-05-29). "'Colossus' makes literary sense of U.S. corporations". USA TODAY.