Authors

Jesse Jackson Jr. Jesse Jackson Jr.

Jesse Jackson Jr., member of the House Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, has represented Illinois’s 2nd District since 1995.

Apr 2, 2010

Ross Gelbspan Ross Gelbspan

Ross Gelbspan, author of The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription (Perseus) and the just-published Boiling Point (Basic) maintains the website www.heatiso…

Apr 2, 2010

Dan Wakefield Dan Wakefield

Dan Wakefield’s books include the memoir New York in the Fifties, and he was editor of Kurt Vonnegut: Letters.

Apr 2, 2010

Robert Sherrill Robert Sherrill

Robert Sherrill, a frequent and longtime contributor to The Nation, was formerly a reporter for the Washington Post. He has authored numerous books on politics and society, includi…

Apr 2, 2010

Gore Vidal Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, a longtimeĀ NationĀ contributing writer, was a prolific novelist, playwright and essayist, and one of the great stylists of contemporary American prose. Vidal made his de…

Apr 2, 2010

Sanford Levinson Sanford Levinson

Sanford Levinson is professor of law at the University of Texas and Harvard Law School.

Apr 2, 2010

JoAnn Wypijewski JoAnn Wypijewski

JoAnn Wypijewski, who writes The Nation’s “Carnal Knowledge” column, has been traveling the country to research a book on America in a time of crackup. Contact her at jwyp at earthlink.net.

Apr 2, 2010

Noah Isenberg Noah Isenberg

Noah Isenberg is the author, most recently, of Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins, and is currently at work on a new book, Everybody Comes to Rick’s: How “Casablanca” Taught Us to Love Movies.

Apr 2, 2010

Joy Gordon Joy Gordon

Joy Gordon, who teaches philosophy at Fairfield University, is at work on a book on the Iraq sanctions to be published by Harvard University Press.

Apr 2, 2010

Arthur Waskow Arthur Waskow

Rabbi Arthur Waskow directs the Shalom Center (www.shalomctr.org), 6711 Lincoln Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19119. He is the author of many books on Jewish thought and practice and the…

Apr 2, 2010

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