Authors

Ron Walters Ron Walters

Ron Walters is the Distinguished Leadership Scholar in the Burns Academy of Leadership and professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland. His latest book, with…

Apr 2, 2010

Caleb Crain Caleb Crain

Caleb Crain is the author of the novel Necessary Errors, recently published by Penguin Books.

Apr 2, 2010

Roberta Brandes Gratz Roberta Brandes Gratz

Roberta Brandes Gratz is an award-winning journalist and urban critic whose most recent book is The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs (Nation Books).

Apr 2, 2010

Rick Perlstein Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008), a New York Times bestseller picked as one of the best nonfiction books of the year by over a dozen publications. A former online columnist for The New Republic and Rolling Stone and former chief national correspondent for the Village Voice, his journalism and essays have appeared in Newsweek, The Nation, the New York Times, and many other publications. Perlstein has been called the "chronicler extraordinaire of American conservatism" by Politico and the "hypercaffeinated Herodotus of the American century" by The Nation. He lives in Chicago, where he is at work on a book on the 1970s and the rise of Ronald Reagan. He plays jazz piano on the side.

Apr 2, 2010

Johnny Temple Johnny Temple

Johnny Temple plays bass guitar in the rock bands Girls Against Boys and New Wet Kojak and is the publisher of Akashic Books (www.akashicbooks.com), based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Apr 2, 2010

Courtney Love Courtney Love

Courtney Love is a singer and actress. With her band Hole, she released the multimillion-selling albums Celebrity Skin and Live Through This.

Apr 2, 2010

Mindy Pennybacker Mindy Pennybacker

Mindy Pennybacker is editor of The Green Guide , an environmental newsletter (http://thegreenguide.com).

Apr 2, 2010

John Dinges John Dinges

John Dinges has been writing for many years on Latin America. His latest book is The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents.

Apr 2, 2010

Amy Bach Amy Bach

Amy Bach is the author of Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court.

Apr 2, 2010

John Anderson John Anderson

John Anderson is chief film critic at Newsday.

Apr 2, 2010

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