Sontag, Sherry; and Drew, Christopher; with Drew, Annette Lawrence
New York: Public Affairs, 1998. Later printing. Hardcover. 25 cm. xvii, [10], 352, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Appendices. Notes. Index. Signed by the co-author (Christopher Drew). Sherry Sontag is an investigative journalist who, before turning to Blind Man's Bluff, was a staff writer for the National Law Journal. While there, she wrote about the Soviet Union, international affairs, and domestic scandals in securities and banking. Prior to that, Sontag wrote for the New York Times. A lifelong resident of New York, she has degrees from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and Barnard College. Christopher Drew is an American investigative reporter for The New York Times. He has written on submarine espionage, on presidential campaigning, and other topics. Drew,and others, were the recipient of a George Polk Award in 2016 for reporting on the SEALS' SEAL Team 6 and on the killing of an Afghan in 2012. Drew reported from Washington D.C. for ten years, twice winning White House Correspondents' Association awards for national reportage. His book Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, co-authored with Sherry Sontag and with Annette Lawrence Drew, won an Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) certificate award in 1998. The Chicago Tribune team used Freedom of Information Act requests and examined formerly secret and dangerous submarine military actions. The book also won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History prize for the best book on American naval history published in 1998. Annette Drew, the book's researcher, has a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton. More