Robert Merry and David Ignatius, best-selling author and prize-winning Washington Post columnist, discuss the the state of American politics in a post-election, COVID-19 world and Mr. Ignatius’ new novel, The Paladin: A Spy Novel.
Robert Merry will be joined by a live audience in the theater. David Ignatius will be participating in the conversation via Zoom from his home in Washington, DC.
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ABOUT DAVID IGNATIUS
ABOUT ROBERT MERRY
David Ignatius is an American journalist and novelist. He is an associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post. He has written eleven novels, including Body of Lies, which director Ridley Scott adapted into a film. He is a former adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and currently Senior Fellow to the Future of Diplomacy Program. He has received numerous honors, including the Legion of Honor from the French Republic, the Urbino World Press Award from the Italian Republic, and a lifetime achievement award from the International Committee for Foreign
“Fact and fiction converged for me in a story that changed my life — and turned me into a novelist. That was a front-page story I wrote for the Wall Street in February 1983 revealing that the CIA had recruited Yasser Arafat’s chief of intelligence as an American asset, and had run him off and on until he was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad in 1979…” read more.
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Robert W. Merry spent forty years in Washington, D.C., as political reporter, newsroom executive, corporate CEO, political commentator, and historian. He covered Congress, the White House, and national politics for The Wall Street Journal for a decade, then spent twenty-two years at Congressional Quarterly as the company’s top editor and CEO. At CQ, he earned the reputation as a pioneer in digital publishing. After the publication was sold to The Economist of London in 2009, Merry became editor of the foreign policy journal The National Interest. Merry’s books include biographies of postwar columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop, and President James Polk, who took America into the Mexican War and expanded U.S. territory by a third. The Alsop book won an Ambassador award from the New York-based English-Speaking Union, while the Polk biography was a New York Times bestseller. Merry now lives on Whidbey Island, where he is working on a book on William McKinley and America’s march toward empire. Merry's latest book is President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, published in November 2017. Merry now divides his time between Whidbey Island and Washington, D.C.