Peter Bergen
Peter Bergen is a fellow at the New America Foundation in
Washington D.C; an Adjunct Professor at the School of
Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University;
CNN's terrorism analyst and author of Holy War, Inc.:
Inside the Secret World of Bin Laden. (Free Press, 2001).
Holy War, Inc., which The Washington Post reviewed as "the
only book you need to read about Osama bin Laden" was a New
York Times bestseller and has been translated into eighteen
languages. A documentary based on Holy War, Inc., which
aired on National Geographic television, was nominated for
an Emmy in the research category. His most recent book
is "The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al
Qaeda's Leader" (Free Press, 2006) PURCHASE THE BOOK.
Bergen has written about al Qaeda and terrorism for a
variety of publications including the New York Times, Los
Angeles Times, The New Republic, Foreign Affairs, The
Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian and The Daily
Telegraph. He is on the editorial board of Studies in
Conflict & Terrorism, the leading scholarly journal in the
field. In 1997, as a producer for CNN, Bergen produced bin
Laden's first television interview. He was the recipient of
the Leonard Silk Journalism Fellowship 2000 for Holy War,
Inc, and in 1994 he won the Overseas Press Club Edward R.
Murrow award for best foreign affairs documentary for the
CNN program "Kingdom of Cocaine."
From mid 1998 to late 1999 Bergen worked as a correspondent-
producer for CNN. He was program editor for "CNN Impact," a
co-production of CNN and TIME, from 1997 to 1998.
Previously he worked for CNN as a producer on a wide
variety of international and U.S. national stories. From
1985 to 1990 he worked for ABC News in New York. Bergen received a B.A. in Modern History from New College,
Oxford University in 1984. He was born in Minneapolis in
1962 and was raised in London.
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Series
Books:The Longest War, January 2011
Hardcover
The Osama bin Laden I Know, August 2006
Paperback
The Osama bin Laden I Know, January 2006
Hardcover
Holy War, Inc., June 2002
Paperback
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