D.B. Grady

D.B. Grady is the coauthor of Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry. He can be found online at dbgrady.com. More

D.B. Grady is the pseudonym of author David Brown. He is coauthor of The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army (Wiley, 2012) and Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry (Wiley, 2013). He is a graduate of Louisiana State University, a former U.S. Army paratrooper, and a veteran of Afghanistan. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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The Biggest Little Diplomatic Crisis You've Never Heard of

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Drones and Assassinations: Our Ghost War in Afghanistan Is Not Real War

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In Praise of Bad Steve

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How the War Will Change Art

How the War Will Change Art

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How Young Adult Fiction Came of Age

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How to Write a Novel About Post-Katrina New Orleans

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The Case for Crime Fiction

The Case for Crime Fiction

More than 70 years after Raymond Chandler defended the genre in The Atlantic, the debate about its status as art continues More »

On Memorial Day

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Veteran's Day

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War in Libya: Why We Had No Choice

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Why a Libyan No-Fly Zone Is Worth the Risks

Why a Libyan No-Fly Zone Is Worth the Risks

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David Vitter: The Teflon John

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Arizona Court Not Buying DOJ's Argument Against the Immigration Law

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