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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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Giving Longfellow His Due

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Dec 15 2008, 10:02 AM ET Comment

I think  the implicit message of this correcting e-mail from Caitlin Hopkins is that the Atlantic, of all magazines, shouldn't mess with Longfellow:

Please note that "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" a.k.a. "Christmas Bells" was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1864, and not, as you state on your blog, by Johnny Marks.

The poem was set to music by John B. Calkin in 1872 and re-arranged by Johnny Marks in the 1950s. Marks' version is sometimes said to be "based on" Longfellow's poem, but the only difference between the poem and the carol (other than the title) is the omission of two stanzas about the Civil War (though the poem makes a whole lot more sense if you leave those stanzas in).



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