Garrett M. Graff
Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist historian Garrett M. Graff has covered politics, technology, and national security for two decades. His award-winning work—including magazine articles, podcasts, documentaries, and books on topics like the presidency, World War II, 9/11, the Cold War, Watergate, and cybersecurity—uses history to explain the story of today, illuminating where we’ve been as a country and where we’re headed as a world.
Garrett M. Graff’s latest New York Times bestseller, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb, provides a panoramic narrative of how ordinary people grapple with extraordinary wartime risks, sacrifices, and choices that will transform the course of history. Drawing from dozens of oral history archives and hundreds of books, reports, letters, and diaries, Graff masterfully blends the memories and perspectives of key figures, as he traces the breakthroughs, and the breakneck pace of atomic development in the years leading up to 1945. He takes us inside the B-29 bombers carrying Little Boy and Fat Man and finally to ground zero in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The former editor of POLITICO Magazine and longtime WIRED and CNN contributor, he now writes the popular "Doomsday Scenario" newsletter and hosts the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning podcast, Long Shadow. He’s the author of ten books, including Watergate: A New History, and is best known for his three landmark volumes of oral history, The Only Plane in the Sky, about 9/11, When the Sea Came Alive, about D-Day.