Barton Gellman
Former Journalist Covering the U.S. Government and Senior Advisor at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School

Hampton Sides is a critically acclaimed American historian, journalist, and best-selling author known for his gripping narrative nonfiction works. His themes focus on adding creative depth to real pivotal historical moments, often involving war, exploitation, and survival. Through meticulous research, he’s developed stories highlighting the American West, the manhunt for Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassin, and Captain James Cook’s final voyage.
Some of his bestselling novels include "Ghost Soldiers" (2001), "Blood and Thunder" (2006), "Hellhound on His Trail" (2010), "In the Kingdom of Ice" (2014), "On Desperate Ground" (2018), and "The Wide Wide Sea” (2024) which was named one of The New York Times’s Ten Best Books of 2024 and featured on Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List.
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Former Journalist Covering the U.S. Government and Senior Advisor at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School
Expert in Race Relations and Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution
International Correspondent for The New York Times Covering Climate Change and the Middle East
Diplomatic Editor at The Economist and Writer on the Israel/Palestine Conflict
Executive Director of The Representation Project and Chair of the Critical Theory and Social Justice Department at Occidental College
Senior Vice President of Meet the Press on NBC News and Former Editor of POLITICO
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