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Jeffrey Goldberg - Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Author of the book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, Goldberg also writes the magazine's advice column.
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Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, Goldberg was a Middle East correspondent, and the Washington correspondent, for The New Yorker. Previously, he served as a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. He has also written for the Jewish Daily Forward, and was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post.

His book Prisoners was hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The Progressive, Washingtonian magazine, and Playboy. Goldberg rthe recipient of the 2003 National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism. He is also the winner of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists prize for best international investigative journalist; the Overseas Press Club award for best human-rights reporting; and the Abraham Cahan Prize in Journalism. He is also the recipient of 2005's Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize.

In 2001, Goldberg was appointed the Syrkin Fellow in Letters of the Jerusalem Foundation, and in 2002 he became a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
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Beschloss on Truman's View of the State Department

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Dec 29 2009, 11:38 AM ET Comment

One of the joys of the Christmas season is that I have time to work down the stack of books staring at me reproachfully from my bedside table. One of them is Michael Beschloss's The Conquerors, about Roosevelt and Truman and their approach to Germany, in which I read this gem of an anecdote:

"Rabbi Stephen Wise hoped that the shock and outrage that Americans were feeling could be harnessed on behalf of the age-old dream of a Jewish state in Palestine. On Friday morning, April 20, in the Oval Office, Wise told the new president, "''m not sure if you're aware of the reasons underlying the wish of the Jewish people for a homeland.'
Truman told Wise he would try to help. On his desk was a stiff memo form the State Department warning that the Palestine question was 'highly complex.' Years later Truman recalled that the memo 'from the striped pants boys' was 'in effect telling me to watch my step, that I didn't really understand what was going on over there and that I ought to leave it to the experts.'"


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