Natural politicians are skilled actors, recreating reality, adjusting and ad-libbing, synthesizing the scenes, saying the same thing over and over again and making it seem that they are saying it for the first time.
David Maraniss Quotes
I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.
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| Birth: | 1949 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Editor, Journalist |
About
David Maraniss was born in Detroit, Michigan. He is an American journalist and author, currently serving as an associate-editor for The Washington Post. He received a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1993 for his coverage of then-candidate Bill Clinton during the 1992 United States presidential election. The Post assigned him the job of biographer for their coverage of 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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