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James Reston, Jr.

James Reston, Jr. is the author of 13 books, three plays, and many articles in national magazines. He is a scholar with expertise in the history of the Crusades, the historical conflict between Christianity and Islam, and bioethical issues. He won the Prix Italia and the Dupont-Columbia Award for his 1983 radio documentary on National Public Radio, "Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown." His last four historical books, GALILEO: A LIFE, THE LAST APOCALYPSE: EUROPE AT THE YEAR 1000 A.D., WARRIORS OF GOD and DOGS OF GOD have been translated into more than twelve foreign languages. WARRIORS OF GOD and COLLISION AT HOME PLATE: THE LIVES OF PETER ROSE AND BART GIAMATTI, Reston’s absorbing major league baseball tragedy, were optioned by Hollywood. Reston has just completed THE GATES OF VIENNA: SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT AND ISLAN'S NEAR SUPREMACY IN EUROPE which is about Constantinople in the 16th century, when the great Ottoman Empire was at its zenith.

THE CONVICTION OF RICHARD NIXON: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE FROST/NIXON INTERVIEWS is Reston’s most recent book. In 1976-1977, Reston was David Frost's Watergate adviser for the famous Frost/Nixon television interviews, seen by 57 million people world-wide. The book is a fascinating chronicle of that experience and how Reston and his team were able to wrestle some startling truths about Watergate from the impeached President. The manuscript was a considerable inspiration to the British playwright Peter Morgan in the making of his hit play, "Frost/Nixon," in which Reston is a major character. The play has been made into a film by Ron Howard and set for release in December 2008.

Reston’s articles appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Esquire, Playboy, and Rolling Stone. He has lectured widely in the United States and overseas. He was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome, a scholar in residence at the Library of Congress, and is currently a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.

Visit Reston's Web site for more information.

The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews

The Washington Post: "...an intelligent and compassionate memoir...compact and gripping..."

Los Angeles Times: "...a riveting memoir"

Publishers Weekly (starred review)"...fascinating reading"

Watch Reston talk about his book THE CONVICTION OF RICHARD NIXON which is the basis of the play "Frost/Nixon" by Peter Morgan and the Ron Howard film "Frost/Nixon."

An interview with Reston on National Public Radio:

Fragile Innocence

A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2006

A Finalist for the 2006 Books for a Better Life Award

Judy Woodruff: "Turning his remarkable writer's gaze inward, into his own family, Jim Reston captures the most unfair condiditon of all: a parent living with the suffering of a child. Once you start this book, and are caught up in the story of Hillary, Devin, Maeve, Denise and Jim, you won't put it down. Reston shows, as all of us with a 'special needs' child know, that whole families are changed by the tragedy of one."

Newsweek: "A story of love and hope."

Dogs of God: Columbus, The Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors

Washington Post: “...an engaging and highly readable book...The events in Dogs of God may have taken place more than 500 years ago, but there are times when they seem chillingly, worryingly familiar."

USA Today: "In an energetic style unfettered by scholarly jargon or too many footnotes, Reston brings alive the conflict between the Catholic and the Muslim and how the conflict still resonates today."

Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade

Washington Post Book World: "A refreshingly unbiased popular history of the Third Crusade."

Kirkus Review: "Remarkably intimate and engagingly detailed."

Forbes FYI: "Reading this book, one sways between horror and exhilaration. The magnitude of human suffering is mind-boggling, but the warriors' adventures are the stuff of boyhood fantasy."

The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 A.D.

The New York Times Book Review: "Sifting through court poems, Norse sagas, Hungarian folk tales... Reston constructs a colorful and dramatic story."

Kirkus Review: "[A] lively, absorbing 'saga' of Europe at the end of the last millennium... a thoughtful, briskly told narrative that makes the period come alive."

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Boldly written... Can the last millennium enlighten the next? Reston gives us the question dipped in blood."

Galileo: A Life

Los Angeles Times Book Review: "In the spirited evocation of Galileo's charisma and capacity, Reston traces his galactic collision course with the only power on earth of heaven able to bring him to his knees: the Roman Catholic Church.... Fresh, sinewy, and altogether admirable."

Washington Post Book World: "It is the triumph of the book that Reston himself is able to offer a convincing imitation of a Renaissance man -- stepping beyond the Arts/Science dichotomy of the 20th century to tell the story of a society where not only were science and religion regarded as the same side of the coin, but in which their union made sense."

Collision at Home Plate

George Will, The New York Review of Books: "It touches on some of the great themes of literature -- love, waste, regret."

Chicago Tribune: "[An] uncommly intelligent book aabout two fascinating, uncommon (if flawed) men."

Toronto Star: "[This] is epic Americana. Reston is steady, painstaking, and controlled as he pits the schlar against the slugger."