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Jane Mayer

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Jane Mayer is the co-author of two best-selling narrative non-fiction books:

1. Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, and

2. Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas

She received glowing reviews for each and they were book-of-the-month-club selections, the latter of which was a finalist for the National Book Award.

She is a Washington-based staff writer for The New Yorker, specializing in political and investigative reporting. Before that, she was a senior writer and front page editor for The Wall Street Journal, as well as the Journal's first female White House correspondent.

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Books by Jane Mayer

Average rating: 4.21 · 1,159 ratings · 295 reviews · 5 distinct works

	The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals 4.24 avg rating — 1,093 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas 3.83 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988 by Jane Mayer, Doyle McManus 3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Speaking of Journalism: 12 Writers and Editors Talk about Their Work by William Knowlton Zinsser, Jennifer Allen, Janice Kaplan 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Jane Mayer

“Few would argue against safe-guarding the nation. But in the judgment of at least one of the country's most distinguished presidential scholars, the legal steps taken by the Bush Administration in its war against terrorism were a quantum leap beyond earlier blots on the country's history and traditions: more significant than John Adams' Alien and Sedition Acts, than Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War, than the imprisonment of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. Collectively, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. argued, the Bush Administration's extralegal counter-terrorism program presented the most dramatic, sustained, and radical challenge to the rule of law in American history.”
― Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals

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