Ron Suskind

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Ron Suskind

Ron Suskind (* 1959 in Kingston , New York ) is an American author , investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner for feature writing (1995).

Life

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

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

Services

In his series of articles (" feature story "), which was honored with the Pulitzer Prize, Suskind accompanied the odyssey of African American students from a public high school on their way to the Ivy League for three years . Only one of them eventually manages to get accepted to Brown University . The lyrics 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 in it on the presidential adviser Karen Hughes ; A statement by the White House chief of staff Andrew Card , who called the pragmatic Hughes “the beauty to Karl's beast” and thus alluded to the more ideological Karl Rove, plays a central role . Card feared that Hughes’s upcoming resignation would result in a political shift to the right.

In December 2002, there was a report on Karl Rove based on his public comments and a long memorandum written by Bush's former head of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, John DiIulio . This memo contained DiIulio's experiences of everyday political life in the White House. In it he criticized the Bush administration and was quoted in the report as saying: "This is the rule of the Mayberry- Machiavelli ".

His The Price of Loyalty , published January 13, 2004, revealed details from the early years of the Bush administration. The book, which is based among other things on more than nineteen thousand internal documents, accuses the government that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the occupation of Iraq were planned back in January 2001, during the meeting of the United States ' National Security Council .

On October 17, 2004, the New York Times Magazine published the cover story "Without a Doubt: Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush". Suskind claimed that if Bush was re-elected on November 2, 2004, he would immediately privatize the welfare system. This sparked heated controversy in the last two weeks of the election campaign. The article was based on the transcript of a conversation between George W. Bush and one of his advisors.

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

The One Percent Doctrine (is) a plan that 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 whereby the United States must respond to any seemingly serious terrorist threat, even if there is only one percent probability that it is real."

- Challenging Times For Dick Cheney , transcript from a CNN broadcast on June 26, 2006

Excerpts from the book were published in the news magazine Time in early June 2006 .

Works

  • A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League . Broadway, 1998, ISBN 0-7679-0126-6 .
  • 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 .
  • The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 . Simon & Schuster, 2006, ISBN 0-7432-9568-4 .
  • The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism . Harper, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-06-143062-6 .
  • Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President . Harper, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-06-142925-5 .
  • Life, Animated . Kingswell, Glendale 2014, ISBN 978-1-4231-8036-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ron Suskind in the NNDB
  2. ↑ About Ron Suskind
  3. ^ Edited transcript of a PBS interview , July 26, 2006
  4. ^ Name of a "fictional city" in North Carolina. See Mayberry on Wikipedia
  5. ↑ See Mayberry Machiavelli in the English language Wikipedia
  6. ↑ Original: "It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis"
  7. ↑ Without a doubt, Faith, Facts, and the Presidency of George W. Bush
personal data
SURNAME Suskind, Ron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston , New York