Ron Suskind, Pultizer Prize-winning journalist
and author
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind
has written some of America's most important works of nonfiction,
framing national debates while exploring the complexities
of human experience.
Mr. Suskind's latest New York Times bestseller, The
Way of the World, A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of
Extremism (HarperCollins, 2008), is a multi-layered
narrative about the forces at home and abroad fighting today's
battles for hope and security. Juxtaposing the human dramas
of cultural collision with the controversial policies of
the Bush administration and foreign leaders, the book weaves
together a variety of story lines, painting a highly original
portrait of the world we live in today. At the same time,
it breaks major stories about prewar intelligence on Iraq,
the U.S. government's deception of its closest allies and
the tragic last months in life of Benazir Bhutto. The Washington
Post called the book a "humorous, indignant, touching
story" which shows "that America's most effective
defense against international terrorism is not torture or
wiretapping but the moral energy that flows from truthfulness,
generosity, integrity and optimism." The New York
Times called the book "a reportorial
feat," especially
in "chronicling the inner workings of the administration's
national security team," and "the question of whether
America and the Muslim world can ever look past their differences
and find understanding."
Mr. Suskind's New York Times bestseller
The One Percent Doctrine, Deep Inside America’s
Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 (Simon&Schuster,
2006), is the definitive work on how the U.S. government
frantically improvised to fight a new kind. He takes readers
on a tour of what he calls "the invisible battlefield" -
a global matrix where U.S. spies race to catch soldiers of
jihad before they strike - and reveals Dick Cheney's "one
percent doctrine," the secret core of America's foreign
policy playbook since 9/11. The book was called "riveting" by
the New York Times; "an important book, filled
with jaw-dropping stories we haven't heard before," by
the Washington Post; and the "most detailed, revealing
account yet of American counterterrorism efforts," by
Publishers Weekly.
His book, The Price of Loyalty,
George W. Bush, the White House and the Education of Paul
O'Neill (Simon&Schuster,
2004), was a singular, sweeping tour of the inner workings
of the American government, that The New York Times called "an
invaluable contribution to the historical record." Fortune
cited the #1 New York Times Bestseller as "one
of the 75 'smartest' books ever written," and it was
awarded Best Book of 2004 by the Investigative Reporters
and Editors.
Mr. Suskind is also the author of A Hope
in the Unseen, An American Odyssey from the Inner City to
the Ivy League (Doubleday/Broadway,
1998), a book that has redefined national debates on race,
class and achievement and is a favorite on U.S. campuses
and in book clubs. Mr. Suskind, who speaks regularly around
the country about the central role of education in the unfinished
American journey, helps audiences discover a "hope in
the unseen" in their own lives and, together, in the
life of their country.
Mr. Suskind often appears on network
television, and currently writes for Time Magazine, The
New York Times Magazine, Esquire and the Wall
Street Journal,
where he was the senior national affairs reporter and won
the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. A graduate of
the University of Virginia and Columbia University's Graduate
School of Journalism, Mr. Suskind spends summers as a Distinguished
Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College. He lives in Washington
, D.C. , with his wife, Cornelia Kennedy Suskind, and their
two sons, Walter and Owen. |
