David Corn, Washington editor for The Nation, a Fox News Channel contributor and best-selling author, will lecture on Monday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel. This event, hosted by the Hamilton College Democrats, is free and open to the public.
Corn is also the newly-hired Washington editor of Mother Jones. His book, The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception (Crown, 2003) was a New York Times bestseller. Corn's most recent book, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, which he co-authored with Michael Isikoff, was published in 2006. He also wrote Deep Background, a 1999 political thriller, and Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades in 1994.
He currently writes a web column for The Nation called "Capital Games." He has a blog at www.davidcorn.com that is part of the Pajamas Media network and also blogs at HuffingtonPost.com.
Corn has also written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Newsday, Slate and Salon and many other publications on topics such as politics, the White House, Congress and the national security establishment. He has broken stories on George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Enron, the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA leak case, the Pentagon and other Washington players and institutions.
A long-time commentator on television and radio, Corn is a regular panelist on the weekly television show Eye On Washington and has appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, Hardball and C-SPAN's Washington Journal. Corn is a regular on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show and To The Point and has contributed commentary to NPR, BBC Radio and CBC Radio.
Corn is also the newly-hired Washington editor of Mother Jones. His book, The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception (Crown, 2003) was a New York Times bestseller. Corn's most recent book, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, which he co-authored with Michael Isikoff, was published in 2006. He also wrote Deep Background, a 1999 political thriller, and Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades in 1994.
He currently writes a web column for The Nation called "Capital Games." He has a blog at www.davidcorn.com that is part of the Pajamas Media network and also blogs at HuffingtonPost.com.
Corn has also written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Newsday, Slate and Salon and many other publications on topics such as politics, the White House, Congress and the national security establishment. He has broken stories on George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Enron, the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA leak case, the Pentagon and other Washington players and institutions.
A long-time commentator on television and radio, Corn is a regular panelist on the weekly television show Eye On Washington and has appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, Hardball and C-SPAN's Washington Journal. Corn is a regular on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show and To The Point and has contributed commentary to NPR, BBC Radio and CBC Radio.
