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.
From Carter to Obama
By Jeffrey Goldberg
Oct 9 2009, 8:35 AM ET
I can't imagine I'm the only one who sees the Nobel Peace Prize as somewhat debased. Jimmy Carter's experience is instructive in this regard. The Nobel committee famously slighted Carter after -- after -- he negotiated the Camp David accord that led to a durable peace between Israel and Egypt. Many years later, he won it for the sum of his work (and yes, I have my strong feelings about that work, mainly negative) but the Nobel Committee did not see him as deserving at the time of Camp David, even though his achievement was remarkable. Now, thirty years later, an American president receives the prize with no concrete achievements in the realm of international peacemaking (or domestic policy, for that matter) to his name. This is a decision that might come back to haunt the Nobel committee. I hope not, but it might.
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