Ghost Wars; The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. Seventh Printing. Hardcover. xix, [1], 695, [5] pages, List of Maps. Principal Characters. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Signed by the author. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Steve Coll (born October 8, 1958) is an American journalist, academic and executive. He has been the dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he is also the Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism. He was a staff writer for The New Yorker. He is the recipient of two Pulitzer Prize awards, two Overseas Press Club Awards, a PEN American Center John Kenneth Galbraith Award, an Arthur Ross Book Award, a Livingston Award, a Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Steve Coll is a writer for The New Yorker and author of the Pulitzer Prize- winning Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. He is president of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington, D.C. Previously he served, for more than twenty years, as a reporter, foreign correspondent, and ultimately as managing editor of The Washington Post. The Taking of Getty Oil. Coll received a 1990 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism and the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for outstanding international print reporting and the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best magazine reporting from abroad. Ghost Wars, published in 2004, received the Pulitzer for general nonfiction and the Arthur Ross award for the best book on international affairs. More