Garrett M. Graff

Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist historian Garrett M. Graff has covered politics, technology, and national security for two decades. His award-winning work-including magazine articles, podcasts, documentaries, and books on topics like the presidency, World War II, 9/11, the Cold War, Watergate, and cybersecurity-uses history to explain the story of today, illuminating where we've been as a country and where we're headed as a world.

The former editor of POLITICO Magazine and longtime WIRED and CNN contributor, today he writes the popular Doomsday Scenario newsletter, serves as the director of cyber initiatives at the Aspen Institute, and hosts the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning podcast, "Long Shadow. "

He's written for publications like Esquire, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York, and Foreign Affairs, and is the author of ten books, including "Watergate: A New History," which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. He is perhaps best known for his three landmark volumes of oral history - including the #1 national bestseller "The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11," which collected the voices of 500 Americans as they experienced that tragic day. The Wall Street Journal called the book "a priceless civic gift," and it won audiobook of the year. His other oral histories include "When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day," and, most recently, "The Devil Reached Toward the Sky," about the making and use of the atomic bomb.