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Ronald Kessler is an American journalist and New York Times bestselling author of 17 non-fiction books. He is currently the chief Washington correspondent for the conservative website Newsmax. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... NewsMax. ...

Personal Life

Kessler was born on December 31, 1943, in Manhattan, New York. He lives with his wife Pamela Kessler in Potomac, Maryland. His daughter Rachel Kessler, a public relations executive, and son Greg Kessler, an artist, live in New York. He claims that waterboarding is not torture, nor is subjecting a prisoner to sleep deprivation and extremes in temperature. We challenge him to experience these techniques and then make a judgement whether they are torture. Kessler is a sycophant, not a journalist. He kisses the Bush corporeal nether-regions. For other uses, see Manhattan (disambiguation). ...

Career

Kessler is the New York Times bestselling author of seventeen non-fiction books. Kessler began his career as a journalist in 1964 on the Worcester Telegram, followed by three years as an investigative reporter and editorial writer with the Boston Herald. In 1968, he joined the Wall Street Journal as a reporter in the New York bureau. He became an investigative reporter with the Washington Post in 1970 and continued as a staff writer until 1985. Kessler has authored 17 books, beginning with The Life Insurance Game in 1985. His latest book is The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack.

Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com, a web site with an average of 2.4 million unique visitors a month, and of Newsmax magazine, which has a readership of 600,000. His stories for Newsmax have included interviews with President Bush, Donald Trump, Andy Card, Gen. Michael Hayden, Mitt Romney, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Lynne Cheney, Jim Cramer, Deborah Norville, Dana Perino, Robert S. Mueller III, Margaret Spellings, Jeb Bush, and Fran Townsend. NewsMax. ...

Bibliography

• The Life Insurance Game (1985)
• The Richest Man in the World
• Spy vs. Spy
• Moscow Station
• The Spy in the Russian Club
• Escape from the CIA
• Inside the CIA (1994) ISBN 0-671-73458-X
• The FBI: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency
• Inside the White House
• The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (1996)
• Inside Congress (1998) ISBN 0-671-00386-0
• The Season: Inside Palm Beach and America's Richest Society (1999)
• The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI (2002)
• The CIA at War (2003) ISBN 0-312-31933-9
• A Matter of Character: Inside the White House of George W. Bush (2004)
• Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady (2006) ISBN 0-385-51621-5
• The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack (2007) ISBN 0-307-38213-3

Awards

Kessler has won sixteen journalism awards, including two George Polk awards — one for national reporting and one for community service. He won the top prize for business and financial reporting given by the Washington chapter of the Sigma Delta Chi society of professional journalists. Kessler has also won the American Political Science Association’s Public Affairs Reporting Award, the Associated Press’ Sevellon Brown Memorial Award, and Washingtonian magazine’s Washingtonian of the Year award. George Polk, (1913 - 1948) was an American journalist for CBS who disappeared in Greece and was found dead shortly afterwards on Sunday May 16, 1948, shot at point blank range in the back of the head, and with hands and feet tied. ... The American Political Science Association, founded in 1903, serves more than 15,000 members in more than 80 countries, bringing a variety of services to political scientists both inside and outside academic institutions. ... The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ...

External links

• http://www.ronaldkessler.com/ - Kessler's personal website.
• Q and A on "Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady"
• The Wall Street Journal, "Wiretap Dance," op-ed on the NSA intercepts, December 21, 2005.
• Bush Mythology in National Review
  • February 28, 2001, "Fire Freeh" by Ronald Kessler Page A23 in the Washington Post
  • National Review interview **"Uncovering Deep Throat" in National Review