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Jim Rasenberger
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Jim Rasenberger

Jim Rasenberger is the author of The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs, and High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World’s Greatest Skyline. He has written for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Smithsonian, and The Wilson Quarterly, among other publications. A native of Washington, D.C., he lives in New York City with his wife and sons.

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The Brilliant Disaster will be released on April 10, 2012 in Trade Paperback
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NPR, April 26, 2012
...Albert Brooks, Jo Ann Beard and James Tate. Fiction and nonfiction releases from Mary Gordon, Henning Mankell and Jim Rasenberger. Please keep your community civil. All comments must follow the NPR.org Community rules and terms of use. See also the...
NPR, April 25, 2012
...Albert Brooks, Jo Ann Beard and James Tate. Fiction and nonfiction releases from Mary Gordon, Henning Mankell and Jim Rasenberger. Please keep your community civil. All comments must follow the NPR.org Community rules and terms of use. See also the...
NPR, April 19, 2012
...Albert Brooks, Jo Ann Beard and James Tate. Fiction and nonfiction releases from Mary Gordon, Henning Mankell and Jim Rasenberger. Fiction and nonfiction releases from Julie Otsuka, Kyung-sook Shin and Shirley MacLaine. Please keep your community civil....
NPR, April 18, 2012
...Albert Brooks, Jo Ann Beard and James Tate. Fiction and nonfiction releases from Mary Gordon, Henning Mankell and Jim Rasenberger. Fiction and nonfiction releases from Julie Otsuka, Kyung-sook Shin and Shirley MacLaine. Please keep your community civil....
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WNYC, April 11, 2012
...Fiction and nonfiction releases from Mary Gordon, Henning Mankell, Jim Rasenberger, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Charles J. Ogletree Jr. and Meghan O'Rourke...
St Ignace News, March 7, 2012
...Public Library will meet Wednesday, March 14, at 5:30 p.m. and will read “America 1908” by Jim Rasenberger. The Morning Book Club will meet Thursday, March 15, at 10 a.m., and will read “Stealing Buddha’s Dinner” by Bich Minh Nguyen. read more...
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...at @charabbott or check out the #followreader hashtag. Fiction and nonfiction releases from Mary Gordon, Henning Mankell and Jim Rasenberger. Fiction and nonfiction releases from Julie Otsuka, Kyung-sook Shin and Shirley MacLaine. Fiction and nonfiction...
NPR, April 11, 2012
...at @charabbott or check out the #followreader hashtag. Fiction and nonfiction releases from Mary Gordon, Henning Mankell and Jim Rasenberger. Fiction and nonfiction releases from Julie Otsuka, Kyung-sook Shin and Shirley MacLaine. Fiction and nonfiction...
WNYC, April 11, 2012
...Fiction and nonfiction releases from Mary Gordon, Henning Mankell, Jim Rasenberger, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Charles J. Ogletree Jr. and Meghan O'Rourke...
New York Times, March 13, 2012
...proclaimed that it was an example of society’s moral decay; on the 40th anniversary of the attack, Jim Rasenberger wrote in The Times that “the case quickly expanded into an all-consuming metaphor for the ills of contemporary urban life.”...
The Cuban Triangle, June 10, 2011
...will multiply Cuba’s bandwidth by a factor of 3,000. A reader recommends A Brilliant Disaster by Jim Rasenberger, a book about President Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs fiasco. In the comments section, his notes on surprising findings in the book...