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Gary YoungeAlfred Knobler FellowBorn in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and raised in Stevenage near London, Gary Younge graduated at 17 and went to teach English to refugees in Sudan before going on to study French and Russian at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh. Upon graduation he was awarded a scholarship from The Guardian to study newspaper journalism at City University in London in 1992. After a brief stint as a researcher on a televised international affairs magazine program World This Week, he joined The Guardian in 1994. In 1996, he was sent to the The Washington Post after being awarded the Lawrence Stern fellowship, which assigns a young British journalist to the Washington Post's national desk each year. His first book, No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the Deep South (Picador, 1999), was published to much acclaim and was released in the United States in 2002. His second book, Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States (New Press, 2006), was released on both sides of the Atlantic. He was awarded Newspaper Journalist of the Year by the Ethnic Minority Media Awards in the UK for three straight years 2002 to 2004. He was also nominated for Foreign Journalist of the Year in 2000 for his reporting from Zimbabwe. In 2009, he was awarded the prestigious James Cameron Prize for his reports on the election of Barack Obama which combined on the road reporting with personal insights. Younge has written for the Los Angeles Times, GQ Style, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Hello! He also helped produce two television documentaries for the BBC: Keepin' it Real: On the Trial of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs and Minister of Rage on the banning of Louis Farrakhan from the UK. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Tara.
Selected Articles and Videos: Immigrants cause job losses? Like ice-cream brings sharks Labour's Fighting Chance Compared to Europe, the US can at least make a pretence of democracy The west owes Haiti a bailout. And it would be a hand-back, not a handout Bonus Outrage: Class Struggle or Class Envy? How the miners' strike taught me to believe in impossible things Former DNC chairman says attack ads against Obama will get nastier Read the rest of Gary Younge's columns for The Guardian here. Read the rest of Gary Younge's columns for The Nation here.
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The Great American StickupHow Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street
"One of the best reporters of our time."—Joan Didion In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal. Check out Scheer's book tour! MoreMarfa Dialogues/Diálogos en Marfa: Politics and Culture of the Borderundef 0 | Marfa, Texas See acclaimed Nation Books authors Charles Bowden and Mark Danner speak at Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of the Border, three days of art, film, music, and literature. Presented by Ballroom Marfa and The Washington Spectator, in collaboration with The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company.
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