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Manuel Roig-Franzia

Manuel Roig-Franzia
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Manuel Roig-Franzia

Manuel Roig-Franzia is a writer in The Washington Post’s Style section. His long-form span a broad range of subjects, including politics, power and the culture of Washington, as well as profiling major political figures and authors.Roig-Franzia has also served as bureau chief in Miami for the Post's National staff and in Mexico City for the Foreign staff. He’s covered U.S. and international presidential campaigns, the January 2010 Haiti earthquake and more than a dozen major hurricanes, including Katrina.Roig-Franzia was born in Spain, and came to The Post from The New Orleans Times-Picayune, where he wrote about the colorful, four-time governor, Edwin... Read full bio

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Atlantic Monthly, May 4, 2012
...His Record Has Several Other Irregularities. Rubio has already faced questions about his official biography. Washington Post reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia revealed that contrary to prior claims, Rubio's parents came to the United States from Cuba before,...
Politico, May 3, 2012
...POLITICO's Huddle spent some quality time this week with an advance of Manuel Roig-Franzia’s new biography, "The Rise of Marco Rubio," due out June 19. The book covers an extraordinary length of time, beginning with the birth of Rubio’s grandfather...
Lakeland Ledger, May 2, 2012
...than the hatchet job some Rubio allies had feared. "The Rise of Marco Rubio" by Washington Post writer Manuel Roig-Franzia may leave some readers questioning Rubio?s political core on issues ranging from immigration to government spending, but it?s...
St. Petersburg Times, May 1, 2012
...than the hatchet job some Rubio allies had feared. The Rise of Marco Rubio by Washington Post writer Manuel Roig-Franzia may leave some readers questioning Rubio's political core on issues ranging from immigration to government spending, but it's...
St. Petersburg Times, May 1, 2012
...than the hatchet job some Rubio allies had feared. The Rise of Marco Rubio by Washington Post writer Manuel Roig-Franzia may leave some readers questioning Rubio's political core on issues ranging from immigration to government spending, but it's...
Mother Jones, April 27, 2012
...account. Things get even messier: According to a Rubio biography due out in June by Washington Post reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia, Rubio's grandfather Pedro Victor Garcia was an illegal immigrant to the United States. Disillusioned by his financial...
Zimbio, April 25, 2012
...PoliticoPRESIDENT OBAMA “slow-jams the news” with Jimmy Fallon -- Fallon: “Awww yeah. You should listen to the President, or, as I like to call him, the Preezy of the United Steezy. things were heating up in Congress' chambers, behind all those...
Issues In Perspective, February 25, 2012
...that he has been present for 100 suicides over the past 15 years using his method.  As reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia states, “Egbert sees his work as a calling, a vocation aimed at ending suffering.  But he says he provides only guidance and...
Yahoo! News, February 10, 2012
...With Jack Kevorkian gone, says Manuel Roig-Franzia, this 84-year-old doctor is the new face of assisted suicide LAWRENCE EGBERT COMES to his cramped third-story office almost every weekday, taking calls on an old white push-button phone...
The Week Magazine, February 10, 2012
...With Jack Kevorkian gone, says Manuel Roig-Franzia, this 84-year-old doctor is the new face of assisted suicide LAWRENCE EGBERT COMES to his cramped third-story office almost every weekday, taking calls on an old white push-button phone...
PBS, February 7, 2012
...no longer faces charges in Georgia, and was acquitted in an Arizona assisted suicide case last spring: By Manuel Roig-Franzia, The Washington Post (January 2012) “Egbert estimates he has been present for 100 suicides in the past 15 years, a figure that...
Kaiser Health News, January 26, 2012
...one other state — Washington — has legalized the procedure, and the American Medical Association remains firmly opposed(Manuel Roig-Franzia, 1/19). American Medical News: Hospital Employment Pits Work Rules Against Physician Rights [W]ith physician...
LifeNews.com, January 23, 2012
...the new “public face of American assisted suicide,” Lawrence Egbert. On January 22, the Washington Post Magazine’s Manuel Roig-Franzia wrote a long profile of Lawrence Egbert, the former director of the Final Exit Network, who by his own admission...