History, Truth, Justice - The 20th Century and its Crimes
Participants
1) Personal Details and
Education
Born: September 28, 1952, Boston, Massachusetts.
Educated: The Lycee Francais de New York, The New Lincoln School, and Princeton University (A.B., 1978)
2) Employment
1979-1989: Senior editor and director, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (publishers), New York.
1980-1985: Program Director, The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University.
1985-1986: Visiting Professor in Creative Writing, The City University of New York
1990-1995: Writing Faculty, The Empire State Summer Writing Program at Skidmore College
1998- : Deputy Editor, The World Policy Journal
1990- : Contributing Editor, The New Republic
1989- : Freelance Writer
3) Professional Associations and Boards
Senior Fellow at The World Policy Institute at the New School; Fellow, The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University; Member, The
Council on Foreign Relations; Board member of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch; Board member of the Central Eurasia Project of the Open
Society Institute.
3) Publications
a) Books:
Going To Miami: Tourists, Exiles and Refugees in the New America (Boston: Little, Brown, 1987)
Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990)
The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992)
Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1995)
(with Roy Gutman) Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999)
b) Articles:
Frequent contributions to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde (Paris), El Pais
(Madrid), The New Republic, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, and many other publications.
4) Current Projects
Completing a book on disaster relief---The Ends of Humanitarianism---tentatively scheduled for publication by Simon and
Schuster on February, 2001.
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Università degli
Studi di Siena - Via Banchi di Sotto, 55 - Siena
Anno Accademico 1999-2000