Ron Suskind

Ron Suskind ( born 1959 in Kingston, New York) is an American author, investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winners for journalism (1995).

Life

Suskind completed a bachelor's degree at the University of Virginia and earned a master's degree in 1983 at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Subsequently, he worked for the New York Times. From 1985 he worked for the St. Petersburg Times and came in 1987 to the " Boston Business Magazine". From 1993 to 2000 he wrote for the Wall Street Journal as " National Affairs Writer".

Suskind now works for The New York Times Magazine, and Esquire. He lives with his wife and two sons in Washington and visited regularly lectures at Dartmouth College.

Services

In his series of articles ( " feature story " ), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Suskind accompanied three years the Odyssey African American students at a public high school on their way to the Ivy League. Only one of them finally manages to be accepted at Brown University. The texts were the starting point for the book A Hope in the Unseen, which was published in 1998.

In 2002 he wrote two reports in Esquire magazine about the "inner workings " of the Bush administration. In June 2002, he reported it on the presidential counselor Karen Hughes; plays a central role in it, a statement of the Chief of Staff of the White House Andrew Card, the pragmatic Hughes " the beauty to Karl 's beast" called and thus alluding to the more ideologically agierernden Karl Rove. Card afraid that Hughes impending resignation would have a political shift to the right result.

In December 2002, a documentary about Karl Rove followed based on the public comments and a long memorandum which had written Bush's former head of the "White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives " John DiIulio. This memo contained DiIulios experiences of everyday political life in the White House. He criticized the fact the Bush administration and was in the report quoted as saying: "This is the reign of the Mayberry Machiavelli ".

His published on 13 January 2004 book The Price of Loyalty unveiled details of the early years of the Bush administration. The book, based in part on more than nineteen thousand internal documents, the government accuses that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the occupation of Iraq, during the meeting of the National Security Council of the United States, was planned in January 2001.

On 17 October 2004, the New York Times Magazine published a cover story, " Without a Doubt: Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush." Suskind claimed that Bush wanted immediately in the event of his re-election on 2 November 2004 to privatize the social system. This led to a fierce controversy in the last two weeks of the campaign. The article was based on the protocol of a call from George W. Bush with one of his advisors.

In the book The One Percent Doctrine, published in 2008, Suskind alleges, among other things, that the terrorist organization al - Qaeda had planned an attack with hydrogen cyanide in the New York subway in the fall of 2002, which was not carried out for reasons unknown. The book's title refers to a statement Dick Cheney; he had said:

"The One Percent Doctrine (is) a plan did the United States Has To respond to any seemingly serious threat of terrorism, even if there is only a one percent chance of it being real. "

" The One Percent Doctrine is a plan that the United States must respond to every serious translucent terrorist threat, even if it is really only a one percent probability. "

Excerpts of the book in June 2006 that have already been published in Time magazine.

Works

  • The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in on Age of Extremism. Harper, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0061430626.
  • The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11. Simon & Schuster, 2008, ISBN 0-7432-9568-4.
  • The price of loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the education of Paul O'Neill. Simon & Schuster, New York 2004, ISBN 0-7432-5545-3.
  • A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League. Broadway, January 1998, ISBN 0-7679-0126-6.
  • Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President. Harper, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0061429255.
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