Hendrik Hertzberg is a senior editor and staff writer at The New Yorker. According to Forbes magazine, he is one of “The 25 Most Influential Liberals in the U.S. Media.” He is a six-time finalist for the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary, which he won in 2006. He is the author of Politics: Observations & Arguments, named as a best book of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, and ¡Obamanos!: The Birth of a New Political Era. Hertzberg originally joined the New Yorker in 1969 after serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He later worked as a White House speechwriter under President Jimmy Carter and as editor of The New Republic before returning to The New Yorker in 1992. Hertzberg, a Harvard graduate, has also been a fellow of Harvard’s Institute of Politics and its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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