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James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and has worked for the magazine for more than 25 years. He has written for the magazine on a wide range of topics, including national security policy, American politics, the development and impact of technology, economic trends and patterns, and U.S. relations with the Middle East, Asia, and other parts of the world.
Fallows grew up in Redlands, CA, and then attended Harvard, where he was president of the newspaper The Crimson. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1970 and then studied economics at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He has been an editor of The Washington Monthly and of Texas Monthly, and from 1977 to 1979 he served as President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter. His first of eight books, National Defense, won the American Book Award in 1981. He has worked as a software designer at Microsoft, and from 1996 to 1998 he was the editor of U.S. News & World Report.
In the five years after the 9/11 attacks, Fallows was based in Washington and wrote a number of articles about the evolution of U.S. policies for dealing with terrorism and about the war in Iraq. One of these articles, "The Fifty First State?", won the National Magazine Award, and another, "Why Iraq has no Army", was a finalist. He also writes a monthly technology column for the magazine.
His books Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy (January 1996), and Free Flight: From Airline Hell to a New Age of Travel were excerpted in the February 1996 and June 2001 issues, respectively. Looking at the Sun (1994) was excerpted in several installments in the early 1990s. His book, Blind into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq (2006) is based on several of his Atlantic articles. Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China was published in January 2009. He is married and has two sons.
His latest writings can be found on the James Fallows blog.
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