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Peter L. Bergen

Peter L. Bergen
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Peter L. Bergen

Peter Bergen is the author of Holy War, Inc., which has been translated into 18 languages, and The Osama Bin Laden I Know. They were both named among the best nonfiction books of the year by The Washington Post and documentaries based on teh books were both nominated for Emmys. Bergen is CNN's national security analyst and a fellow at the New America Foundation and New York University's Center on Law & Security. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic and has worked as a correspondent for National Geographic television, Discovery, and CNN. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Atlantic,... Read full bio

Terrorists in Love will be released on June 05, 2012 in Trade Paperback
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Terrorists in Love will be released on October 04, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
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Terrorists in Love is now available in Hardcover, eBook
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Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Terrorists in Love
Sep 20, 2011
The Longest War will be released on June 28, 2011 in Trade Paperback
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The Longest War is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 28, 2011
The Longest War is now available in eBook
Jan 11, 2011
The Longest War will be released on January 11, 2011 in eBook
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The Longest War is now available in Hardcover
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The Longest War will be released on January 11, 2011 in Hardcover
Jan 11, 2011
Excerpt:
Introduction from The Osama bin Laden I Know
Jun 19, 2009
Holy War, Inc. is now available in eAudio
Nov 10, 2008
The Osama bin Laden I Know will be released on August 08, 2006 in Trade Paperback
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The Osama bin Laden I Know is now available in Trade Paperback
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Canton Repository, November 15, 2011
...Internationally renowned journalist Peter Bergen speaks during a press conference prior to the Featured Speakers Series at Kent State University Stark campus Monday. Most Popular Yellow Pages Find whatever you're looking for with...
Inside Bay Area, October 17, 2011
...enlisting their reluctant children in the melee. Funny and surreal. NONFICTION "Terrorists in Love" by Ken Ballen and Peter Bergen (Free Press, $25, 336 pages): The authors quizzed Islamic radicals about their motives for joining jihad. This is a...
Time Out Hong Kong, October 12, 2011
...CNN terrorism expert Peter Bergen tells Matt Fleming that Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda have lost America’s ‘longest war’ Few people in the world can claim they met the late, not-quite-so-great Osama bin...
Eurasia Review, September 11, 2011
...get in the press, see Robert Pape’s indispensible Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. Peter Bergen’s The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda is a terrific primer on the intelligence failures involved in...
Washington Times, September 9, 2011
...in writings such as a November 2009 Senate Foreign Relations Committee report and a December 2009 article by Peter Bergen, Mr. Runkle maintains that U.S. troop levels did not determine Tora Bora’s outcome. Indeed, he brings into question both the...
Slate Magazine, August 29, 2011
...will tackle this very question in a live Oxford-style debate in New York City. CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen and Homeland Security expert Juliette Kayyem will argue for the motion that "It is time to end the war on terror." Former Deputy...
CLSA, August 29, 2011
...Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and President, Timor-Leste H.E. Dr. Jose Ramos-Horta; authors and journalists Ahmed Rashid and Peter Bergen; American political philosopher Michael Sandel; historian Ian Morris; and Google APAC president Daniel Alegre. John...
Crown Publishing, September 27, 2011
...Say Her Name “[T]akes the reader on an extraordinary trip into the heart of the unconquered Amazon” — Peter Bergen, author of The Longest War and The Osama Bin Laden I Know “This is a one-of-a-kind book about a one-of-a kind experience.” —...
Eurasia Review, September 10, 2011
...get in the press, see Robert Pape’s indispensible Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. Peter Bergen’s The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda is a terrific primer on the intelligence failures involved in...
Beattie's Book Blog - unofficial ho, May 16, 2011
...a title looking at the operation that searched for, and finally killed, Osama bin Laden, by al-Qaeda expert Peter Bergen. Publishing director Will Sulkin acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Manhunt from Crown Publishing at Random House US. The book...
Media Decoder, May 3, 2011
...Less than 48 hours after Osama bin Laden ’s death, the book deals have begun. Peter Bergen will write the “definitive” book on the hunt for Bin Laden, his publisher said on Tuesday. Crown Publishers, part of Random House , said it had acquired a...
CNN.com Recently Published/Updated, May 3, 2011
...is bin Laden's successor? "There's no one who can replace him," says CNN security expert Peter Bergen. "When you join al Qaeda you pledge a personal oath of allegiance (to him.)" Jubilation in the U.S. Americans broke into celebration in a show of...
FishbowlNY, May 3, 2011
...Peter Bergen was a producer for CNN in 1997 when he produced Osama bin Laden ’s first television interview, which has been widely replayed ever since. As part of the scramble...
GalleyCat, May 3, 2011
...CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen has landed a deal with Crown Publishers to write “an immersive, definitive account of the operation that killed the world’s most wanted man, Osama bin Laden .” No publication...