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Jon Lee Anderson (born January 15, 1957) is a biographer, author, international investigative reporter, and staff writer for The New Yorker, reporting from war zone locales such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Uganda, Israel, El Salvador, Ireland, Lebanon, Iran, and throughout the Middle East. Anderson has show more also written for The New York Times, Harper's, Life, and The Nation. Anderson is renowned for his numerous profiles of political leaders, including Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Augusto Pinochet. Anderson is also the author of the best-selling and definitive 800 + page biography of the iconic Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. Entitled Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, it was first published in 1997. While researching the book in Bolivia, he discovered the hidden location of Guevara's burial from where his skeletal remains were exhumed in 1997 and returned to Cuba. (Bowker Author Biography)show less

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Jon Lee Anderson is a journalist, investigative reporter, and war correspondent and is presently a staff writer for The New Yorker.

He began his career in the early 1980s, reporting on Central America’s civil wars for TIME magazine and other journals. As a New Yorker staff writer since 1998, he has covered numerous international conflicts, including those in Syria, Ukraine, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, Angola, Mali, Liberia, and Central African Republic. Before becoming a staff writer for the New Yorker, Anderson wrote for The New York Times. His work has also appeared in Harper’s, El Pais, Internazionale, The Financial Times, Guardian, The Sunday Times, TIME, The Nation, and other periodicals and journals.

He is also a celebrated biographer, essayist and the author of books on contemporary conflict, military campaigns and political leadership. He is particularly known for his reporting on Latin America and is renowned for his numerous profiles of political leaders, including Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Augusto Pinoche

Jon Lee Anderson has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1998. He has covered numerous conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, reported frequently from Latin America and the Caribbean, and written profiles of Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, and Gabriel García Márquez. He is the author of several books, including The Lion’s Grave: Dispatches from AfghanistanChe Guevara: A Revolutionary LifeGuerillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World, and The Fall of Baghdad.

"It is in such murky waters that Machiavelli still swims, helping us out even now with the necessary language to rationalize the accidental civilian casualties caused when we use remote-controlled drones to assassinate suspected terrorists in foreign lands, not to mention the cumulative collateral damage of our recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria."

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