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Friday, October 19th

Doubleday

Price: $35.00

ROBERT VARE, JAMES FALLOWS, CULLEN MURPHY, ROBERT D. KAPLAN, and BARBARA DAFOE WHITEHEAD examine 

The American Idea: The Best of  The Atlantic Monthly
 

ROBERT VARE, editor-at-large of The Atlantic Monthly, and JAMES FALLOWS, national correspondent, will be joined by CULLEN MURPHY, former managing editor, ROBERT D. KAPLAN, national correspondent, and BARBARA DAFOE WHITEHEAD for a look at who we are, where we’ve come from, and where we’re going as a nation, as told through some of this storied magazine’s most acclaimed and influential articles over the past 150 years.

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ROBERT VARE is the editor at large of The Atlantic Monthly. He is a former editor at The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times Magazine, where he edited the Pulitzer Prize-winning cover story “Grady’s Gift,” in 1991. In 2004, Vare was the editor of Things Worth Fighting For, a posthumously published collection of writings by Michael Kelly, the former Atlantic editor-in-chief who was killed while covering the war in Iraq. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, he has taught nonfiction writing at Yale and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

James Fallows is The Atlantic Monthly's national correspondent, and has worked for the magazine for more than twenty years. His books include Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq; Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy; and National Defense, winner of the American Book Award for nonfiction. He and his wife live in Washington, D.C.

Cullen Murphy was the managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly from 1985 to 2002 and the magazine’s de facto editor-in-chief from 2002 to 2005. He is the author of The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own and Are We Rome? He is currently the editor-at-large of Vanity Fair.

Photo credit: Gasper Tringale, Vanity Fair.

ROBERT D. KAPLAN is a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and has been writing for the magazine for more than two decades. Kaplan has earned widespread recognition and respect in political and academic circles for his unnerving travelogues—deftly reported, historically informed, philosophically minded dispatches from the most dangerous places on the planet. The author of eleven books, including the highly acclaimed Balkan Ghosts and The Ends of the Earth, he is perhaps best known for his Atlantic cover story “The Coming Anarchy” (and the book that followed of the same title), which President Bill Clinton declared “stunning” and circulated around the White House as "must reading." 

BARBARA DAFOE WHITEHEAD is the co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University and one of the nation’s leading experts on the American family. Her books include Why There Are No Good Men Left and The Divorce Culture. In 1993, she authored a celebrated article for The Atlantic, “Dan Quayle Was Right,” in which she argued that children of divorce, as well as those who are born out of wedlock, tend to lead more troubled lives than children who grow up in traditional two-parent families. The article sparked a national debate and the issue in which it appeared became the second-highest selling in Atlantic history.