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Robert Baer
Robert Baer was a CIA case officer in the Directorate of Operations from 1976 to 1997, where he served in Middle Eastern countries, including Iraq and Lebanon. He is the author of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism.
Baer believes that there is evidence linking Iran to attacks on American interests, including the Khobar Towers bombing in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, that killed 19 U.S. soldiers in 1996. He says that Iran has been mishandled by U.S. diplomats since the 1980s and that American foreign policy regarding the Islamic Republic is based on myths and misinformation.
David Grann
David Grann has been a New Yorker staff writer since 2003. "The Lost City of Z," his New Yorker article about his journey into the Amazon to uncover the fate of a missing explorer, was expanded into a Times best-selling book. Many of his New Yorker pieces are collected in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession.
Martin Kemp
Martin Kemp is Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University. He has written several books and curated major exhibitions on Leonardo da Vinci. His other books include The Science of Art, The Human Animal in Western Art and Science, and Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon, which will appear in November.
William Oldham
William Oldham spent more than two decades as a detective with the New York Police Department. In 2005, he exposed the collusion between two N.Y.P.D. cops and the New York Mafia. With Guy Lawson, he co-wrote a book about the case, The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia.
Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff is the author, most recently, of the Times best-seller Cleopatra: A Life, and of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), which won a Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, which won the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Award in American Studies.
Encyclopædia Britannica Article
- New Yorker, The
U.S. weekly magazine, famous for its varied literary fare and humour. It was founded in 1925 by Harold Ross, who was its editor until 1951. Initially focused on New York City's amusements and social and cultural life, it gradually acquired a broader scope, encompassing literature, current affairs, and other topics. Aimed at a sophisticated, liberal audience, it became renowned for its short fiction, cartoons, major (occasionally book-length) nonfiction pieces, and detailed reviews in the arts. It was sold in 1985 to Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr. (see Newhouse family). Since Ross, its editors have been William Shawn (1952–87), Robert Gottlieb (1987–92), Tina Brown (1992–98), and David Remnick (from 1998).
- New Yorker, The on britannica.com
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