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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.

The Coolest Guy In All of Jersey

By Jeffrey Goldberg
Dec 26 1999, 12:00 PM ET Comment

Steven Van Zandt, the original white boy funk soul brother, is dressed for lunch pretty much the way he always dresses, which is to say he looks like some kind of purple-paisley snakeskin hippie gypsy pirate. Little Steven thinks his mode of dress may cause problems today, because we will be dining in a Jersey City restaurant called Casa Dante, the sort of place that could hold meetings of the DeCavalcante Crime Family Alumni Association. And, as everybody knows, the mob doesn't much like freaks.

"We're in trouble here," Little Steven says.

"No, we're not," I say.

"I've been kicked out of a lot of places," Little Steven says, as we walk through the door.

This is a kind of acid test, because I'm trying to prove a particular theory of mine, which is that Little Steven is the coolest guy in the entire state of New Jersey.

"You're the coolest guy in the entire state of New Jersey," I say. "They're not going to kick you out."
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