Mark Hertsgaard

Mark Hertsgaard

Mark Douglas Hertsgaard (* 1956 ) is an American author and journalist .

Life

Hertsgaard worked as a journalist for magazines such as The New York Times , Time and The New Yorker as well as for foreign magazines such as L`Express, Die Zeit and Der Spiegel . Since 1983 Hertsgaard also wrote several non-fiction books. Since the 1990s he has been committed as an author and journalist primarily to environmental issues. For seven years he traveled to all five continents, where he conducted over 100 interviews in 19 countries and processed them for the 1998 book Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future . A year later the novel was published by S. Fischer Verlag under the title Expedition to the End of the World: In Search of Our Future .

Works

• 1983: Nuclear, Inc .: The Men and Money Behind Nuclear Energy
• 1988: On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency
• 1995: A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles
  • The Beatles: The history of their music , Hanser Verlag 1995, ISBN 3-446-18088-5 .
• 1998: Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future
  • Expedition to the end of the world: In search of our future , S. Fischer Verlag 1999, ISBN 3-10-030505-1 .
• 2002: The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World
  • In the Shadow of the Stars and Stripes: America and the Rest of the World , Hanser Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-446-20285-4 .
• 2010: HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
• 2016: Bravehearts: Whistle-blowing in the Age of Snowden. New York, ISBN 978-1-5107-0337-7 .
  • The Upright - Whistleblowing in the Snowden Era . Hanser Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25399-5 .

Web links

• Mark Hertsgaard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Mark Hertsgaard in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website
• Mark Hertsgaard on Twitter