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Douglas Waller

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Douglas Waller

Douglas Waller is a former correspondent for Newsweek and Time. He has authored five previous books on the military or foreign policy, including the bestsellers The Commandos and BIG RED and the critically acclaimed biography of General Billy... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Get the most out of life. It's shorter than you think.
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My life in 8 words: "Constantly experimenting, writing, trying new and different things."
Wild Bill Donovan will be released on February 21, 2012 in Trade Paperback
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Wild Bill Donovan is now available in Trade Paperback
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Douglas Waller Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Get the most out of life. It's shorter than you think. Q. What are your most overused words or phrases? A. My wife and kids say I have a number of them, which they always point out in my early manuscripts. Q. If you could meet any historical character, who would it be and what would you say to him or her? A. I've said in book talks that I would have loved to have been a reporter during World War II and to have covered Wild Bill Donovan. He was such a fascinating character. And I probably would have covered him. Donovan liked to leak to reporters. Q. What’s your greatest flaw? A. I'm not the best stylist in my writing. Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be? A. To be a novelist. Nonfiction writing is the best I can do. Learn more about Douglas Waller

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Raleigh News & Observer, April 1, 2012
...causes of the tragedy. Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage by Douglas Waller. (Free Press) Bold and imprudent, William J. Donovan (1883-1959) built the Office of Strategic Services ? the CIA?s precursor ? in...
Pajamas Media, March 26, 2012
...Journalist Douglas Waller’s Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage is billed as the first definitive biography of William Donovan, head FDR’s Office of...
Ezine Articles, January 5, 2012
...Christopher Isherwood "Berlin Stories". Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage by Douglas Waller A compelling read - - warts and all - - of William Donovan, an Irish-American lawyer from Buffalo NY who...
The Atlantic Wire, December 19, 2011
...Ferguson. CIA director David Petraeus: Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern Espionage by Douglas Waller. Michael Milken: This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. Garry...
Library of Congress, November 8, 2011
...Journalist and author Douglas Waller appears at the 2011 . Speaker Biography: Douglas Waller, a former veteran correspondent for Newsweek and Time, has reported on the CIA for six years. Waller also covered the Pentagon...
Suite101.com, September 22, 2011
...Justin Martin, David McCullough, Candice Millard, Kristie Miller, Edmund Morris, Carla L. Peterson, Eugene Robinson, James L. Swanson, Douglas Waller, Isabel Wilkerson? Poetry & Prose: Michael Cunningham, Rita Dove, Dave Eggers, Claudia Emerson, Mary...
Poughkeepsie Journal, September 12, 2011
...Lynne Olson, author of "Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour;" Douglas Waller, author of "Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage;" Thomas Parrish, author of...
Washington Times, March 1, 2012
...✔ Pick of the Pack Book discussion: ?Wild Bill Donovan? According to Douglas Waller?s biography of CIA founder Bill Donovan, the lawyer-turned-spymaster so intimated FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover that when Donovan died of dementia in 1959, Hoover spread...
Mail Online UK, February 27, 2012
...of them. They never saw kids being put in car seats or bikes scattered across the front lawn. Douglas Waller, who claims to be the father of a 2-year-old girl named Ryan who was living in the house with her mother and grandparents, was distraught at the...
Mail Online UK, February 27, 2012
...of them. They never saw kids being put in car seats or bikes scattered across the front lawn. Douglas Waller, who claims to be the father of a 2-year-old girl named Ryan who was living in the house with her mother and grandparents, was distraught at the...
Mail Online UK, February 27, 2012
...of them. They never saw kids being put in car seats or bikes scattered across the front lawn. Douglas Waller, who claims to be the father of a 2-year-old girl named Ryan who was living in the house with her mother and grandparents, was distraught at the...
Mail Online UK, February 27, 2012
...of them. They never saw kids being put in car seats or bikes scattered across the front lawn. Douglas Waller, who claims to be the father of a 2-year-old girl named Ryan who was living in the house with her mother and grandparents, was distraught at the...
Durham Herald-Sun, February 25, 2012
...illness. He retired as a Policeman of Newark, NJ. He is survived by six nephews, Herbert Waller (Gailya), Douglas Waller, Sidney Waller, Warren Jay Waller, Fitzgerald Waller, Clifton L. Edwards (Vanessa). He was predeceased by two brothers, Connie Edward...
Durham Herald-Sun, February 24, 2012
...illness. He retired as a Policeman of Newark, NJ. He is survived by six nephews, Herbert Waller (Gailya), Douglas Waller, Sidney Waller (Becky), Warren Jay Waller, Fitzgerald Waller (Dawn), Clifton L. Edwards (Vanessa). He was predeceased by two...