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Private Empire/Steve Coll..................................................... 4
The Art of Intelligence/Henry A. Crumpton ........................ 6
The Queen’s Lover/Francine du Plessix Gray........................ 8
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf/John Coates................... 10
The Twilight War/David Crist.............................................. 12
The Odyssey of KP2/Terrie M. Williams.............................. 14
Where the Heart Beats/Kay Larson..................................... 16
More Than Freedom/Stephen Kantrowitz........................... 18
Saving the School/Michael Brick......................................... 20
A Wilderness of Error/Errol Morris..................................... 22
Excerpts: Summer 2012...................................................... 25
The Penguin Press Authors................................................. 36
Reviewer Checklist............................................................... 38
Foreign Sub Rights.............................................................. 39
Ordering Information.......................................................... 40
Pri vate E mpire
E x x o n M o b i l a n d Ame r i c a n P o w e r
Ste v e C oll
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll goes deep
inside ExxonMobil Corp, the largest and most powerful
private corporation in the United States
In Private Empire, Steve Coll investigates the
notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation,
revealing the true extent of its power. ExxonMobil’s
annual revenues are larger than the economic
activity in the great majority of countries,
equivalent to the GDP of Norway. In many of the
countries where it conducts business, ExxonMobil’s
sway over politics and security is greater than that
of the United States embassy. In Washington,
ExxonMobil spends more money lobbying
Congress and the White House than any other
corporation. Yet despite its outsized influence, it
is a black box.
Private Empire begins with the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 and closes with the Deepwater Horizon
oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The narrative
spans the globe, taking readers to Moscow, impoverished African capitals, Indonesia, and elsewhere
in heart-stopping scenes that feature kidnapping
cases, civil wars, and high-stakes struggles at the
Kremlin. At home, Coll goes inside ExxonMobil’s
K Street office and corporation headquarters in
Irving, Texas, where top executives in the “God
Pod” (as employees call it) oversee an extraordinary corporate culture of discipline and secrecy.
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The action is driven by larger than life
characters, including corporate legend Lee “Iron
Ass” Raymond, ExxonMobil’s chief executive until
2005. A close friend of Dick Cheney’s, Raymond was
both the most successful and effective oil executive
of his era and an unabashed skeptic about climate
change and government in all its aspects. The
larger cast includes Raymond’s successor, Rex
Tillerson, who broke with Raymond and tried to
reset ExxonMobil’s public image; as well as the
countless world leaders, plutocrats, dictators,
guerrillas, and corporate scientists who are part of
ExxonMobil’s colossal story.
The first hard-hitting examination of
ExxonMobil, Private Empire is the masterful result
of Steve Coll’s indefatigable reporting. He draws
here on more than four hundred interviews;
field reporting from the halls of Congress to
the oil-laden swamps of the Niger Delta; more
than one thousand pages of previously classified
U.S. documents obtained under the Freedom of
Information Act; heretofore unexamined court
records; and many other sources. A penetrating,
newsbreaking study, Private Empire will be the
definitive portrait of ExxonMobil.
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S te v e C oll is most recently the author of the New
York Times bestseller The Bin Ladens. He is the president
of the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public
policy institute headquartered in Washington, D.C.,
and a staff writer for The New Yorker. Previously he
worked for twenty years at The Washington Post, where
he received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism
in 1990. He is the author of six other books, including the
Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Ghost Wars. He lives in
Washington and New York.
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T he A rt of
I n tellige n ce
Le s s o n s f r o m a L i f e i n t h e CIA ’ s C l a n d e s t i n e Se r v i c e
H e n ry A . C ru mpton
A legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the
spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career while
illustrating the growing importance of America’s intelligence officers
and their secret missions
For a crucial period, Henry Crumpton led the CIA’s
global covert operations against America’s terrorist
enemies, including al Qaeda. In the days after 9/11,
the CIA tasked Crumpton to organize and lead the
Afghanistan campaign. With Crumpton’s strategic
initiative and bold leadership, from the battlefield
to the Oval Office, U.S. and Afghan allies routed
al Qaeda and the Taliban in less than ninety days
after the Twin Towers fell. At the height of combat
against the Taliban in late 2001, there were fewer
than five hundred Americans on the ground in
Afghanistan, a dynamic blend of CIA and Special
Forces. The campaign changed the way America
wages war. This book will change the way America
views the CIA.
The Art of Intelligence draws from the full
arc of Crumpton’s espionage and covert action
exploits to explain what America’s spies do and
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why their service is more valuable than ever. From
his early years in Africa, where he recruited and
ran sources, from loathsome criminals to heroic
warriors; to his liaison assignment at the FBI, the
CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, the development
of the UAV Predator program, and the Afghanistan
war; to his later work running all CIA clandestine
operations inside the United States, he employs
enthralling storytelling to teach important lessons
about national security, but also about duty, honor,
and love of country.
No book like The Art of Intelligence has ever
been written—not with Crumpton’s unique
perspective, in a time when America faced such
grave and uncertain risk. It is an epic, sure to be a
classic in the annals of espionage and war.
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H enry A . C rumpton is the president of
Crumpton Group, LLC, a strategic international
advisory and business development firm. With the rank
of ambassador at large, he served as the coordinator
for counterterrorism at the U.S. Department of State
from August 2005 until February 2007. Crumpton
joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1981 and
spent most of his twenty-four-year career working
undercover in the foreign field. He is the recipient of
the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the CIA’s highest
award for achievement. Crumpton received a B.A. from
the University of New Mexico and a master’s, with
honors, from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
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T he Q u ee n ’ s L ov er
A Novel
F ra nci n e du Plessi x Gray
Historical fiction of the highest order, The Queen’s Lover reveals the
untold love affair between Swedish aristocrat Count Axel von Fersen
and Marie Antoinette
The Queen’s Lover begins at a masquerade ball in
Paris in 1774, when the dashing Swedish nobleman
Count Axel von Fersen first meets the mesmerizing
nineteen-year-old Dauphine, Marie Antoinette,
wife of the shy, reclusive prince who will soon
become Louis XVI. This electric encounter
launches a lifelong romance that will span the
course of the French Revolution.
The affair begins in friendship, however, and
Fersen quickly becomes a devoted companion to
the entire royal family. As he roams the halls of
Versailles and visits the private haven of Le Petit
Trianon, Fersen discovers the deepest secrets of the
court, even learning the startling, erotic details of
Marie Antoinette’s marriage to Louis XVI. But the
events of the American Revolution tear Fersen
away. Moved by the cause, he joins French troops
in the fight for American independence.
When he returns, he finds France on the
brink of disintegration. After the Revolution of
1789 the royal family is moved from Versailles
to the Tuileries. Fersen devises an escape for the
family and their young children (Marie-Thérèse
and the Dauphin—whom many suspect is in fact
Fersen’s son). The failed attempt leads to a more
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grueling imprisonment, and the family spends its
excruciating final days captive before the King and
Queen meet the guillotine.
Grieving his lost love in his native Sweden,
Fersen begins to sense the effects of the French
Revolution in his homeland. Royalists are now
targets, and the sensuous world of his youth is
fast vanishing. Fersen is incapable of realizing
that centuries of tradition have disappeared, and
he pays dearly for his naïveté, losing his life at the
hands of a savage mob that views him as a pivotal
member of the aristocracy.
Scion of Sweden’s most esteemed nobility,
Fersen came to be seen as an enemy of the country
he loved. His fate is symbolic of the violent
speed with which the events of the eighteenth
century transformed European culture. Expertly
researched and deeply imagined, The Queen’s Lover
is a fresh vision of the French Revolution and the
French royal family as told through the love story
that was at its center.
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© Nancy Crampton
F rancine du P lessix G ray has been a
regular contributor to The New Yorker and is the author
of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, including
Simone Weil, At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life, Rage
and Fire, Lovers and Tyrants, and Soviet Women. She is most
recently the author of the memoir Them: A Memoir of
Parents. She lives in Connecticut.
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T he H o u r B etwee n
D og a n d Wolf
RIS K TA K IN G , G U T f ee l i n g s , AND TH E b i o l o g y
of boom and bust
Joh n C oates
A successful Wall Street trader turned Cambridge neuroscientist
reveals the biology of boom and bust and how risk taking transforms
our body chemistry, driving us to extremes of euphoria and risky
behavior or stress and depression
The laws of financial boom and bust, it turns out,
have more than a little to do with male hormones.
In a series of groundbreaking experiments, Dr.
John Coates identified a feedback loop between
testosterone and success that dramatically lowers
the fear of risk in men, especially younger men—
significantly, the fear of risk is not reduced in
women. Similarly, intense failure leads to a rise in
levels of cortisol, the antitestosterone hormone
that lowers the appetite for risk across an entire
spectrum of decisions.
Coates had set out to prove what was already
a strong intuition from his previous life: Before he
became a world-class neuroscientist, Coates ran
a derivatives desk in New York. As a successful
trader on Wall Street, “the hour between dog and
wolf” was the moment traders transformed—
they would become revved up, exuberant risk
takers, when flying high, or tentative, risk-averse
creatures, when cowering from their losses. Coates
understood instinctively that these dispositions
were driven by body chemistry—and then he
proved it.
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The Hour Between Dog and Wolf expands on
Coates’s own research to offer lessons from the
entire exploding new field—the biology of risk.
Risk concentrates the mind—and the body—like
nothing else, altering our physiology in ways that
have profound and lasting effects. What’s more,
biology shifts investors’ risk preferences across the
business cycle and can precipitate great change in
the marketplace.
Though Coates’s research concentrates on
traders, his conclusions shed light on all types
of high-pressure decision making—from the
sports field to the battlefield. The Hour Between Dog
and Wolf leaves us with a powerful recognition:
To handle risk in a “highly evolved” way isn’t a
matter of mind over body; it’s a matter of mind and
body working together. We all have it in us to be
transformed from dog into wolf; the only question
is whether we can understand the causes and
the consequences.
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J ohn C oates is a senior research fellow in
neuroscience and finance at the University of Cambridge.
After completing his Ph.D., Coates worked for Goldman
Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Deutsche Bank in New York,
where he observed the powerful emotions driving
traders. He returned to Cambridge in 2004 to research
the effects of the endocrine system on financial
risk taking. Coates’s work has been cited in several
publications, including The New York Times, Wired, and
The Economist, and he has appeared on Good Morning
America, CBS Evening News, and the BBC. His writing has
been published in the Financial Times and Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, among others.
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T he T wilight War
T h e Se c r e t H i s t o r y o f Ame r i c a ’ s T h i r t y - Ye a r
Conflict with Iran
Dav id C rist
The dramatic secret history of our undeclared thirty-year conflict with
Iran, revealing newsbreaking episodes of covert and deadly operations
that brought the two nations to the brink of open war
For three decades, the United States and Iran
have engaged in a secret war. It is a conflict that
has never been acknowledged and a story that has
never been told.
This surreptitious war began with the Iranian
revolution and simmers today inside Iraq and
in the Persian Gulf. Fights rage in the shadows,
between the CIA and its network of spies and Iran’s
intelligence agency. Battles are fought at sea with
Iranians in small speedboats attacking Western oil
tankers. This conflict has frustrated five American
presidents, divided administrations, and repeatedly
threatened to bring the two nations into open
warfare. It is a story of shocking miscalculations,
bitter debates, hidden casualties, boldness, and
betrayal.
A senior historian for the federal government
with unparalleled access to senior officials and
key documents of several U.S. administrations,
Crist has spent more than ten years researching
and writing The Twilight War, and he breaks new
ground on virtually every page. Crist describes
the series of secret negotiations between Iran and
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the United States after 9/11, culminating in Iran’s
proposal for a grand bargain for peace—which the
Bush administration turned down. He documents
the clandestine counterattack Iran launched after
America’s 2003 invasion of Iraq, in which thousands
of soldiers disguised as reporters, tourists, pilgrims,
and aid workers toiled to change the government
in Baghdad and undercut American attempts to
pacify the Iraqi insurgency. And he reveals in vivid
detail for the first time a number of important
stories of military and intelligence operations by
both sides, both successes and failures, and their
typically unexpected consequences.
Much has changed in the world since 1979,
but Iran and America remain each other’s biggest
national security nightmares. “The Iran problem”
is a razor-sharp briar patch that has claimed its
sixth presidential victim in Barack Obama and his
administration. The Twilight War adds vital new
depth to our understanding of this acute dilemma;
it is also a thrillingly engrossing read, animated by
a healthy irony about human failings in the fog of
not-quite war.
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D r . D a v id C rist is a senior historian for the
federal government and frequent adviser to senior
government officials on the Middle East. As an officer in
the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Crist served two tours
with elite special operations forces in Afghanistan and
Iraq and was part of the first U.S. military forces inside
Afghanistan who overthrew the Taliban. He received
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the ody sse y of kp 2
a n o r p h a n s e a l , a m a r i n e b i o lo g i s t, a n d t h e fi g h t
t o s a v e a s pe c i e s
T errie M . W illiams
A renowned marine biologist must rescue one young Hawaiian monk
seal to try to save his entire species from extinction
When a two-day-old Hawaiian monk seal pup is
attacked and abandoned by his mother on a beach
in Kauai, environmental officials must decide if
they should save the newborn animal or allow
nature to take its course. But as a member of the
most endangered marine mammal species in U.S.
waters, Kauai Pup 2, or KP2, is too precious to lose,
and he embarks on an odyssey that will take him
across an ocean to the only qualified caretaker to
accept the job, eminent wildlife biologist Dr. Terrie
M. Williams.
The local islanders see KP2 as an honored
member of their community, but government
agents and scientists must consider the important
role he could play in gathering knowledge and
data about this critically endangered and rare
species. Only eleven hundred Hawaiian monk
seals survive in the wild; if their decline continues
without intervention, they face certain extinction
within fifty years. In a controversial decision,
environmental officials send KP2 to Williams’s
marine mammal lab in Santa Cruz, California,
where she and her team monitor his failing
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eyesight and gather crucial data that could help
save KP2’s species.
But while this young seal is the subject of a
complex environmental struggle and intense
media scrutiny, KP2 is also a boisterous and
affectionate animal who changes the lives of the
humans who know and care for him—especially
that of Williams. Even as she unravels the secret
biology of monk seals by studying his behavior
and training him, Williams finds a kindred spirit
in his loving nature and resilient strength. Their
story captures the universal bond between humans
and animals and emphasizes the ways we help and
rely upon one another. The health of the world’s
oceans and the survival of people and creatures
alike depend on this ancient connection.
The Odyssey of KP2 is an inside look at the life
of a scientist and the role her research plays in the
development of conservation efforts, bringing our
contemporary environmental landscape to life. It
is also the heartwarming portrait of a Hawaiian
monk seal whose unforgettable personality never
falters, even as his fate hangs in the balance.
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T errie M . W illiams , P h . D . , is the director
of the Marine Mammal Physiology Program at the
University of California, Santa Cruz, and a co-creator of
the Center of Ocean Health. A wildlife biologist, Williams
investigates how large animals, from elephants to killer
whales, survive on our changing planet. She was named
one of the 50 Most Important Women in Science by
Discover magazine.
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W here the
H eart B eats
J o h n C a ge , Z e n Bu d d h i s m , a n d t h e I n n e r L i f e o f A r t i s t s
K ay L arson
The first biography of composer John Cage to show how his work, and
that of countless American artists, was transformed by Zen Buddhism
One of the greatest American composers of the
twentieth century, John Cage created music
that defies easy explanation. Many writers have
grappled with Cage’s music—which used notes
chosen by chance, randomly tuned radios, and
even silence—trying to understand what his
music means rather than where it came from.
An unprecedented and revelatory book, Where
the Heart Beats shows what actually empowered
Cage to compose his incredible music, and how he
inspired the tremendous artistic transformations of
midcentury America.
Where the Heart Beats is the first biography of
John Cage to address the phenomenal importance
of Zen Buddhism to the composer’s life and to
the artistic avant-garde of the 1950s and 60s. Zen’s
power of transforming Cage’s troubled mind by
showing him his own enlightened nature—which
is also the nature of all living things—liberated
Cage from an acute personal crisis that threatened
his life, his music, and his relationship with his life
partner, Merce Cunningham. Caught in a society
that rejected his music, his politics, and his sexual
orientation, Cage was transformed by Zen from an
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overlooked and somewhat marginal musician into
the absolute epicenter of the avant-garde.
Using Cage’s life as a starting point, Where
the Heart Beats looks beyond to the individuals
he influenced and the art he inspired. His circle
included Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol,
Merce Cunningham, Yoko Ono, Jasper Johns,
Morton Feldman, and Leo Castelli, who all went
on to revolutionize their respective disciplines. As
Cage’s story progresses, as his students’ trajectories
unfurl, Where the Heart Beats reveals the blossoming
of Zen in the very heart of American culture.
Both an innovative biography and a
groundbreaking cultural history of the American
century, Where the Heart Beats is the work of
acclaimed art critic Kay Larson. Following her
time at New York magazine and The Village Voice,
Larson practiced Zen at a Buddhist monastery
in upstate New York. Larson’s deep knowledge
of Zen Buddhism, her long familiarity with New
York’s art world, and her exhaustive original
research all make Where the Heart Beats the
definitive story about one of America’s most
enduringly important artists.
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K ay L arson —an acclaimed art critic, columnist,
and editor—began her career in journalism at Boston’s
Real Paper, later becoming an associate editor at ARTnews
and an art critic for The Village Voice. She was the art critic
for New York magazine for fourteen years and has been
a frequent contributor to The New York Times. In 1994,
Larson entered Zen practice at a Buddhist monastery
in upstate New York. Though she has written for many
types of publications, this is her first book.
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M ore T ha n F reedom
F i g h t i n g f o r B l a c k C i t i ze n s h i p i n a W h i t e Repu b l i c , 1 8 2 9 – 1 8 8 9
Stephe n K a n trowitz
A major new narrative account of the long struggle of Northern
activists—both black and white, famous and obscure—to establish
African Americans as free citizens, from abolitionism through the Civil
War, Reconstruction, and its demise
Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
has traditionally been portrayed as the triumph
of the nineteenth-century struggle for African
American freedom and Reconstruction as the
ultimately unsuccessful effort to extend that
victory by establishing equal citizenship. In More
Than Freedom, award-winning historian Stephen
Kantrowitz boldly redefines our understanding of
this entire era by showing that the fight against
slavery was only one component of a much broader
campaign by Northern activists to establish African
Americans as full citizens. In this groundbreaking
history, Kantrowitz recounts their pursuit of a
more expansive vision of citizenship—one that
encompassed both the road to abolition and war
and the Reconstruction-era fight for equality,
recognition, and a place to belong in a white
republic.
More Than Freedom chronicles this epic struggle
through the lived experiences of black and white
activists in and around Boston, including both
famous reformers such as Frederick Douglass and
Charles Sumner and lesser-known but equally
important figures. Kantrowitz follows the intimate
and political lives of black men and women who,
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beginning in the late 1820s, began to call themselves
“colored citizens” and to demand not only freedom
and rights, but also the respect, fellowship, and
even affection of their countrymen and -women.
While these activists have traditionally been
called abolitionists, More Than Freedom reveals that
their goals and achievements went far beyond
emancipation. The book charts their growing
networks of political, fraternal, and religious
organization and their transformative impact on
American political and social life in the decades
surrounding the Civil War. By recounting the
day-to-day experiences of these often embattled
activists, Kantrowitz brings vividly to life their
broad campaign for acceptance and inclusion in a
white republic.
Even though these reformers ultimately failed
to remake the nation in the way they hoped, they
nonetheless left it irrevocably altered. In More
Than Freedom, Kantrowitz shows us that without
the persistent efforts of these colored citizens, the
Civil War might not have come, freedom would
not have meant what it did, and Reconstruction
could hardly have begun.
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S tephen K antrowitz is a professor of history
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earned several teaching prizes. He is the author of Ben
Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy, which was a
New York Times Notable Book and won several scholarly
awards. A native of Brookline, Massachusetts, he lives
with his family in Madison and Denmark.
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sav i n g the school
t h e t r ue s t o r y o f a p r i n c i p a l , a t e a c h e r , a c o a c h ,
a b u n c h o f k i d s , a n d a y e a r i n t h e c r o s s HAIRS
o f edu cation refo r m
M ichael Brick
An unstoppable principal’s race to save a failing high school from
falling short of its numbers and closing its doors forever
Anabel Garza: No school board would have put her
forward as a model principal. Pregnant and alone at
sixteen, widowed by twenty-five, Anabel got along
teaching English to Mexican immigrants, raising
her son, and taking night school classes.
But then no model candidate would have
taken the job at John H. Reagan High School.
Once known to sports fans across Texas as the
great champion Big Blue, Reagan was collapsing.
The kids were failing the standardized tests, failing
on the basketball court, failing even to show up.
Teenage pregnancy was endemic. If the test scores
and attendance did not improve, the school was set
to close at the end of the 2009–10 school year.
Anabel took the assignment. Her first work
was triage. She cruised the malls for dropouts. She
fired ten teachers, including one who produced a
ruler to bemoan the distance from the parking
lot to her classroom door. She listened to angry
lectures from union officials and angrier ones from
black ministers. She kept going. She tailored each
student’s tutoring to the standardized tests. The
numbers started to come up.
But with the state education commissioner
threatening to close the school, the real work
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began. Anabel set out to re-create the high school
she remembered, with plays and dances, yearbooks
and clubs, teachers who brought books alive and
crowded bleachers to cheer on the basketball
team. She reached out to the middle schools, the
neighborhoods, and the churches. She gave good
teachers free rein. She mixed love and expectations.
The circumstances facing Reagan High are
playing out all over the country. The get-tough
crowd of education reformers, led by Obama’s
secretary of education, are redoubling their efforts
to replace public schools with charter companies.
But what happens when the centerpiece of a
community is threatened? And what happens
when one person just won’t quit?
For the first time, we can tally the costs of
rankings and scores. In this powerful rejoinder
to the prevailing winds of American education
policy, Michael Brick examines the do-or-die year
at Reagan High. Compelling, character-driven
narrative journalism, Saving the School pays an
overdue tribute to the great American high school
and to the people inside.
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A W ilder n ess
of E rror
a mu r d e r m y s t e r y
E rrol Morris
Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and former private
detective Errol Morris examines the nature of evidence and proof in
the infamous Jeffrey MacDonald murder case
Early on the morning of February 17, 1970, in Fort
Bragg, North Carolina, a Green Beret doctor
named Jeffrey MacDonald called the police for help.
When the officers arrived at his home they found
the bloody and battered bodies of MacDonald’s
pregnant wife and two young daughters. The word
“pig” was written in blood on the headboard in the
master bedroom. As MacDonald was being loaded
into the ambulance, he accused a band of drugcrazed hippies of the crime.
So began one of the most notorious and
mysterious murder cases of the twentieth century.
Jeffrey MacDonald was finally convicted in 1979 and
remains in prison today. Since then a number of
bestselling books—including Joe McGinniss’s Fatal
Vision and Janet Malcolm’s The Journalist and the
Murderer—and a blockbuster television miniseries
have attempted to solve the MacDonald case and
explain what it all means.
In A Wilderness of Error, Errol Morris, who has
been investigating the case for nearly two decades,
reveals that almost everything we know about that
case is ultimately flawed, and an innocent man
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may be behind bars. In a masterful reinvention of
the true-crime thriller, Morris looks behind the
haze of myth that still surrounds these murders.
Drawing on court transcripts, lab reports, and
original interviews, Morris brings a complete
forty-year history back to life and demonstrates
how our often desperate attempts to understand
and explain an ambiguous reality can overwhelm
the facts.
A Wilderness of Error allows the reader to
explore the case as a detective might by confronting
the evidence as if for the first time. Along the way
Morris poses bracing questions about the nature of
proof, criminal justice, and the media, and argues
that MacDonald has been condemned not only
to prison, but also to the stories that have been
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reopens a famous closed case and reveals that, forty
years after the murder of MacDonald’s family, we
still have no proof of his guilt.
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Excer pts
from
Pri vate E mpire
Steve Coll
Sidney J. Reso was typical of the men who rose into
Exxon’s senior leadership ranks: an engineer by academic training; an Exxon employee for life; married
for thirty-seven years to his wife, Patricia; and loyal
to his old schools. He maintained a membership at
the Spring Brook Country Club near his office in
New Jersey and owned a vacation condominium by
the shore in Florida. He was not a
man given to radical decisions or
departures.
It did not augur well, then,
when a neighbor discovered his
car idling with the driver-side door
open at the end of his 250-foot
driveway on a wooded cul-de-sac
in Morris Township at 8 a.m. on an
April morning. Reso had passed
through the front door of his large
brick-and-clapboard home as usual
at 7:30 a.m. to make the ten-minute
drive to his office in Florham Park.
There he served as the president of
Exxon’s large international division.
Police quickly circulated flyers seeking information
about a missing white man, five feet ten inches tall,
180 pounds, with blue eyes and gray hair showing a
reddish tint.
Lee Raymond, Exxon’s president, was speaking at
a board of directors’ meeting in Dallas when a senior
man from security leaned over his shoulder. “I’ve got
to talk to you,” he said. “Right now.”
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Raymond excused himself and returned to
report, “Sid’s been kidnapped.”
The board sat in stunned silence. Kidnappings
were a periodic threat. The feeling in the room was,
“Not another one.”
Exxon called in the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. A ransom note demanded that Exxon
gather $18.5 million in old onehundred-dollar bills, load them
in laundry bags, and prepare for a
drop. The demand came from the
“Fernando Pereira Brigade, Warriors
of the Rainbow,” a reference to
the freelance photographer who
drowned in the Pacific Ocean in 1985
when French intelligence agents
sank the Rainbow Warrior, a vessel
belonging to Greenpeace, during
a seaborne protest against nuclear
weapons testing in French Polynesia.
The FBI’s investigators
spread out across New Jersey. Patricia
Reso twice appeared on television
to issue appeals on behalf of her family. “Wherever
he is, I wonder if he’s cold,” she said of her husband,
“because his overcoat was in the car.” As the weeks
passed, the kidnappers threatened a wider war against
Exxon. “If you interfere in any way,” a letter delivered
in early June declared, “we will strike at our selected
targets. These people . . . will be treated as soldiers
in war.”
from
T he A rt of I n tellige nce
He n r y A . C r ump t o n
The CIA paid a price in a geopolitical policy environment often led by those who did not understand
intelligence or who chose to manipulate it for their
own preconceived agendas. President George W. Bush
would order legal covert action, such as the detention
of terrorist combatants and enhanced interrogation
techniques, only to have President Barack Obama
direct his attorney general to investigate CIA officers for possible illegal
conduct. My education in this politically fraught netherworld nexus of
policy and covert action was just
beginning.
I arrived in CTC [Counterterrorist Center] in September
1999 as one of Cofer Black’s three
deputies. I was responsible for all
the CIA’s global counterterrorism
operations. Cofer instructed me to
get settled, review current operations, and provide initial impressions.
“You have a week,” he said.
“Yes, sir,” I answered. I would
repeat that response to Cofer often in the next
three years.
With Cofer and his new leadership team in CTC,
Tenet expected more pressure on AQ [al Qaeda].
I ordered a variety of maps, including the South
Asian subcontinent, nation-states like Sudan, specific
districts in Afghanistan, and the suburbs of Beirut. I
noted the CIA’s Clandestine Service locations around
the world. Then I outlined the safe havens of AQ and
their affiliates. There was almost zero correlation. It
seemed obvious what we needed to do. To collect
intelligence and engage the enemy, CTC needed to
operate in these enemy safe havens. I noted six key
geographic regions in need of CTC investment:
1. Southeast Asia, particularly at the border confluences of Malaysia, Indonesia, and
the Philippines.
2. Lebanon and other pockets
in the Levant, such as Palestine.
3. Strips of ungoverned space
throughout the Sahel and the Horn
of Africa, but primarily Sudan.
4. The triborder region of
Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina.
5. The Saudi peninsula, especially Yemen.
6. Afghanistan, the most important AQ safe haven, and parts of
Pakistan.
After five days I briefed Cofer
and Ben. I used a whiteboard with
colored markers. The mission was simple. CTC,
working with the rest of the Clandestine Service,
must penetrate enemy safe havens to understand
the enemy, to discern its plans and intentions, and to
prepare the covert action battlefield.
The most important, most immediate objective
was Afghanistan.
from
T he Qu ee n ’ s Lov er
Fr a n c i n e d u P l es s i x G r ay
The central passion of my life began some three decades ago, at one of the weekly balls given at the Paris
Opera during the winter months. I’d recently arrived
in France from my native Sweden, this was the first
time I was attending such an event. I was dazed by the
radiance of the women’s diamonds, the glare of the
chandeliers, the swagger of courtiers’ plumed hats,
the twinkling of minuets, the smart
clicking of valets’ heels as they
passed ices and wines. I, Count Axel
von Fersen, brought up in the relative frugality of Sweden’s aristocracy, was then barely nineteen years
old: I was dazzled and felt a bit lost.
I tried to allay my unease by pacing
about the shuffling crowd, every
member of which wore a mask, a
protocol of Paris opera balls. Some
masks were enormous and surreal;
others, like mine, were simpler slips
of black satin.
As I was surveying all this
splendor, a tall, slender young
woman with dark golden hair, more heavily masked
than others, came to my side. “Bonjour, Beau Masque,”
she said caressingly. I greeted the lady in reply, and
had a few moments to study her features before she
spoke again. The first thing that struck me was the
extraordinary incandescence of her skin. Pick a tea
rose and look deep into that innermost place of the
flower where the petal begins, a very pale tender
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pink at its most tender and delicate—that’s what her
face was like, an oval expanse of the most luminous
skin I’d ever seen. But as soon as you’d finished being
dazzled by that face’s surface you encountered the
eyes, fringed by sumptuously thick lashes, and were
conquered anew by their singular dark blueness, akin
to that deep blue the sky takes on in the predusk
hours of a brilliant day. And their
expression, you will ask, what was
their expression? That’s harder to
describe for her moods seemed to
change at mercurial speed. One
second the eyes were merry, vivacious, mocking. The next they were
most melancholy, revealing a very
great solitude and anxiety.
A circle of courtiers had suddenly gathered about her, and when
my new friend had grown aware of
their presence, she swiftly walked
away without saying good-bye,
briefly lifting the gray velvet mask
off her face with an exasperated
gesture. It was in that split second that I realized who
she was—Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of AustriaHungary, the wife of the notoriously timid, reclusive
Dauphin Louis-Auguste, who might at any moment
become the king of France.
from
T he hou r betwee n dog
a n d wolf
John Coates
When you take risk you are reminded in the most
insistent manner that you have a body. For risk by its
very nature threatens to hurt you. A driver speeding
along a winding road, a surfer riding a monster wave
as it crests over a coral reef, a soldier sprinting across
no-man’s land—each of these people faces a high
chance of injury, even death. And that very possibility sharpens the mind and calls forth
an overwhelming biological reaction known as the fight or flight response. You can be caught up in this
visceral turmoil even when death
poses no immediate threat. Anyone
who plays a sport or watches from
the stands knows that even when
it is “just a game” risk engages our
entire being. Winston Churchill,
a hardened campaigner from the
most deadly wars, recognized this
power of nonlethal risk to grip us,
body and mind. When writing of his
early years he tells of a regimental
polo match played in southern India
that went to a tie break in the final chukka: “Rarely
have I seen such strained faces on both sides,” he recalls. “You would not have thought it was a game at
all, but a matter of life and death. Far graver crises
cause less keen emotion.”
Similar strong emotions and biological reactions
can be triggered by another form of nonlethal risk
taking—financial risk taking. With the exception of
the occasional broker suicide (and these may be more
myth than reality), professional traders, asset managers, and individuals investing from home rarely
face death in their dealings. But the bets they place,
depending on their size and frequency, can threaten
their job, income, house, marriage, reputation, and
social class. In this way money holds a special significance in our lives. It acts as a magic token distilling
many of the threats and opportunities we faced over aeons of evolutionary time, so making and losing
it can trigger an ancient and powerful physiological response.
In fact, in one important
respect financial risk carries even
graver consequences than brief
physical risk. A change in income
or social rank tends to linger so
that newfound wealth causes us to
strut and bask while a slide down
the social ladder causes us to ruminate and fret. So risk takers in the
financial world carry with them for
months, even years after their bets
have settled, an inner biological storm. We are not
built to handle such long-term disturbances to our
biochemistry. Our defense reactions were designed to
switch on in an emergency and then switch off after
a matter of minutes or hours, a few days at the most.
But an above-average win or loss in the markets, or
an ongoing series of wins and losses, can change us,
Jekyll and Hyde-like, beyond all recognition.
from
T he T wilight War
Davi d Crist
When Admiral William Crowe read the top secret
Central Intelligence Agency memo he immediately
realized the magnitude of the crisis. The United States
verged on the brink of war in the Middle East. Iran
planned to conduct a massive naval attack on Saudi
Arabia with the objective of crippling its oil production, the late-September 1987 report stated bluntly.
Over the past month, American intelligence had reported an unusual
congregation of small boats manned
by fervent Revolutionary Guard sailors in the northern Persian Gulf, and
recent satellite images confirmed
boats being moved by truck from
southern Iran. But Iran’s intentions
eluded the Pentagon; analysts suspected it was only a military exercise.
However, this new report described
in detail the numbers of Iranian
boats and their targets in Saudi
Arabia, and even predicted the time
for the attack—within seventy-two
hours. Crowe held the outline for
Tehran’s entire war plan.
“How good is your source for this?” Crowe asked
the CIA courier.
“He is a recent recruit, a navy captain well placed
within the Iranian military. He has proven reliable in
the past,” the officer replied.
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After quickly checking with the deputy national
security adviser, Colin Powell, at the White House,
Crowe dismissed the CIA officer and swiveled around
in his chair, picked up the secure telephone on the
credenza behind his imposing wooden desk, and
punched the autodial for the Saudi ambassador to
Washington, Prince Bandar bin Sultan. The two men
spoke several times a week, and
despite their differing backgrounds,
the admiral from Oklahoma and
the wealthy Saudi fighter pilot had
a close relationship. Bandar had
helped arrange financial support for
the CIA’s secret wars in Afghanistan
and Central America, and he had
recently hosted a meeting at his
Potomac River home between the
CIA and Iraqi officials about sharing
satellite intelligence of Iran.
That afternoon the two men
met in Crowe’s office. “We have a
tip-off from a source of an impending attack on your oil facilities,”
Crowe began. “The Iranians are deliberately flooding
their radios with false information, so we don’t know
the exact day, but likely October 2nd. You need to
give them a warm welcome.”
from
the odysse y of kp 2
Te r r i e M . W i l l i a m s
Snug in his heated enclosure, KP2 was oblivious to
the winter weather and my presence when I slipped
inside one day, grateful for the warmth. Regardless
of his endangered status, he was different from all of
the other seal species I had studied. He was sleeker
in body with a silvery sheen to his pelt. Water shimmered when he swam. History suggests that corpulent manatees were the origin of the
mermaid myth. I think not. There
was grace in KP2’s glide and splendor in the way the sun played off
his glistening wet back. Surely the
sensuous beauty of monk seals had
not been lost on ancient mariners.
I watched as KP2 eased himself
onto the deck and surveyed the
ground. His enclosure was littered
with pieces of old fire hoses, balls,
and deflated plastic floats that the
trainers provided as toys. Expecting
him to clear a path through the
debris, I was surprised to see KP2
head for the nearest pile of toys and
flop on top of it. The seal had all the room in the
world and yet chose to cuddle with junk lying on
the ground. He hugged a deflated plastic float to his
chest. He rolled on top of the fire hose, burying his
head. He continued to wrestle with the hose until he
created a nest. Then he shut his eyes and fell asleep
with his head lolling upside down.
Although he was raised with humans, KP2
showed behavior that was amazingly similar to that
of wild Hawaiian monk seals. Without the benefit
of a mother to teach him, KP2 instinctively nestled
on any object that raised his body off the ground.
Unlike skittish harbor seals and placid Weddell seals,
which tend to avoid beach trash, Hawaiian monk
seals are inexplicably attracted to
the flotsam and jetsam that wash
up on the island shores. Any piece of
rope, fishing nets and lines, plastic
bags and floats are candidates for
bedding. Walk any beach with miles
of white pristine sand in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands and you’ll
find a monk seal draped around
the only piece of high tide garbage
in sight. It is a dangerous habit that
causes some monk seals to become
hopelessly and oftentimes lethally
entangled. No one knows why these
tropical seals have developed such a
quirky behavior, although I suspect
that it has something to do with controlling their
body temperature under the glare of an equatorial
sun. I made a note to test my theory once KP2 was
out of quarantine.
For now I let the young seal sleep and enjoyed the rare quiet moment with him.
from
W here the H eart Beats
K ay L a rs o n
John Cage was thirty-eight years old in 1950. His
music was being performed alongside dances
choreographed by Merce Cunningham, but the New
York establishment was stubbornly indifferent. He
was living among artists who were also being ignored
while they squabbled among themselves in the “gold
rush” toward a new American art.
From 1950 to 1952, Cage’s work
and life changed dramatically. He
made a great leap of the heart, a
“turning”—the word “conversion”
comes from vertere, to turn—that
opened his eyes to the boundless
sky all around him. He introduced
chance, indeterminacy, process,
and a host of other new ideas into
his music. At the high point of the
leap, in August 1952, he handed his
friend David Tudor a score that instructed the pianist to sit quietly at
the keyboard for four minutes and
thirty-three seconds. The title of the
piece was 4’33”.
The sound of no-sound has gone around the
world. Link to YouTube and you can watch the
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as it performs 4’33” at
the Barbican Centre in London in 2004. Conductor
Lawrence Foster walks to the podium amid loud applause. For the next three silent “movements”—plus
two interludes when audience and orchestra stretch,
breathe, rustle, then resume their concentration—a
collective crescendo builds. The hall is one body, one
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mind. Everyone is awake and full of questions.
What is this silence? Why is it so riveting?
And what do we make of it?
Cage said that he regarded 4’33”—his “silent
piece”—with utmost seriousness. For him it was a
statement of essence. The important thing about
having done it, he said, “is that it
leads out of the world of art into the
whole of life.”
And so it does.
In D. T. Suzuki’s teachings, and in all of Buddhism,
“silence” and “emptiness” are
shorthand terms for the inconceivable ground-luminosity—the
Absolute
“nothing”—out
of
which all the “somethings” of the
world arise in their multitudinous
splendor.
Cage loved to tell Suzuki
stories, such as this one:
Before studying Zen, men are men
and mountains are mountains. While studying Zen, things become
confused. After studying Zen, men are men and mountains are
mountains. After telling this, Dr. Suzuki was asked, “What is the
difference between before and after?” He said, “No difference, only
the feet are a little bit off the ground.”
It’s just one of those mystifying Zen sayings—
until it happens to you.
from
More T ha n F reedom
S t ep h e n K a n t r o w i t z
During the years when the expansion, destruction,
and aftermath of slavery preoccupied the nation,
no group focused more sharply on shaping events
than those blacks who were free before the war.
Throughout this critical phase they waged an unceasing political campaign to establish African Americans
as citizens and to give that word a fullness of meaning.
Their campaign began long before
reliable white allies were anywhere
in evidence and lasted long after the
guns of the Civil War fell silent.
To call oneself a “colored
citizen” was to claim a role in at
least two simultaneous efforts. On
the one hand, African American
activists created networks and institutions to bind their scattered communities together. Excluded from
public life in many of its forms, they
created what some scholars have
dubbed a “black counterpublic,” in
which they looked to one another
for support and affirmation. But
although what they built was for many purposes
a world apart, it did not represent a full-scale or
principled withdrawal from the wider world. Even if
they had wished to forge such an enclave, they could
not create walls that slavery and prejudice were
bound to respect.
Rather, most of the leading voices in that
black world of speech and action sought a
rapprochement of hearts and minds with white
Americans. They understood that a future in the
United States required them to establish their place
among their white countrymen. “Citizenship”
meant being legally and politically vested, but it also
meant bonds of trust and even love across the color
line. It meant a warm welcome to the full duties,
rights, privileges, and pleasures of
American life, whether understood
in George Downing’s idea of “universal brotherhood” or in William
Nell’s vision of “the free, the happy
future.” It meant a citizenship of
the heart.
That they sought a sense of
belonging in no way meant that
they relied on moral and emotional
appeals. Far from it. As inheritors
of the ideological legacy of the
American Revolution, they believed
that freedom belonged only to
those willing to seize it. Their campaigns included assertions of their
capacity to be law abiding and “respectable,” but also
strident and even violent challenges to proslavery
and inegalitarian laws. They were a people militant,
and even armed, long before the U.S. government
authorized them to march in its ranks. Citizenship,
they understood, was something one demonstrated
to oneself and to others. It had to be asserted. It had
to be won.
from
sav i ng the school
Michael Brick
Anabel Garza made a visor of her right palm and
squinted across the parking lot. The lightheaded feeling had not yet come on and neither had the daylong
headaches, the sluggishness and photosensitivity. By
October she would check her blood pressure and see
the toll all this was taking and go to the doctor. Iron
deficient at forty-seven: Didn’t that happen to teenage
girls? Anabel was full figured, nothing to be ashamed of after two kids
on a five-foot frame. She had raven
hair, a husky voice, and skin almost
light enough to pass for white. She
did not eat much but when she ate
she ate sweets, the good fried sopapillas dusted with powdered sugar and
plated with single-serving plastic
containers of honey at the La Palapa
cantina across from the high school,
or the miniature Kit Kats and peanut
butter cups she served in her office
to keep the students awake during
the Friday-morning meetings where
they talked about saving the school.
Saving the school was the way everybody else
described her job. She’d been at it a year now. She
described it as “educator, police officer, nurse, psychiatrist, counselor, custodian, translator, gang unit,
parking lot attendant, gardener, and firefighter.” It
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paid $107,000 a year as long as it lasted. It came with
a 40-dollar cell phone allowance, so there was that.
Some days she told people saving the school might
be a fool’s errand, a setup even. Six other principals
had come and gone in as many years and she was
never exactly the darling of the district administration and maybe that was the point: You wanted to be
a principal, Anabel? Well, here you
go, mamacita, Reagan High.
As she squinted across the parking lot, she was trying to look calm.
If she went home now she would
betray the kids, but what if the kids
betrayed her? What if one or two
or ten kids decided the first day of
school at the school everybody said
was going to get shut down would
be a good time to start something,
make it look like a race thing or
maybe it actually would be a race
thing, a full-blown riot in the parking lot with the new superintendent arriving for an inspection and
a newspaper photographer walking around? Anabel
stood there in her black pant suit and her costume
pearls, thinking: “We just need a little miracle on this
one, and then it needs to become routine, so God can
go use His miracles elsewhere.”
from
A W ilder n ess of E rror
Errol Morris
MacDonald had been on the fast track: Princeton in
three years, medical school at Northwestern, a Green
Beret captain at Fort Bragg. He was young and handsome and had an attractive wife, Colette, and two
young daughters: Kimberly, five and Kristin, two. He
had a bright and promising future.
That ended early in the morning on February 17,
1970. The MPs who had responded
to a call for help had found Colette,
who was four months pregnant,
lying on the floor of the master bedroom. She had been brutally beaten
and stabbed, with twenty-four
ice-pick stabs to her chest and arm.
Kimberly and Kristen were found
dead in their beds.
MacDonald says he was struggling to remain conscious. He
told the MPs how he had been attacked by four drug-crazed hippie
intruders—a blond woman holding a candle and chanting “Acid is
groovy . . . kill the pigs,” an African
American man wearing a coat with sergeant’s stripes
who wielded a baseball bat, and two white men with
close-cropped hair. One of the MPs reported that he
had seen a woman matching the description near the
MacDonald home. But no effort was made to pick
her up.
Within minutes, MacDonald was loaded into
an ambulance.
Lieutenant William Ivory, the lead investigator,
quickly came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with MacDonald’s story. There were
signs of a struggle, but perhaps not enough to suggest the presence of four intruders. The living room,
which CID investigators were tramping through,
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devise his own theory of what had
happened.
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by evidence. But what happens
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When evidence is rejected, suppressed, misinterpreted, or remains
uncollected simply because it does not support the
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