For all the attention paid to keeping traditional media alive, not much has been said about how to keep an audience for the survivors. Even where newspapers survive, their readership has shrunk to a small, narrow fraction of what it was when democracy was healthier. And that could be decisive in the next presidential election. …
Dr. David Nash and I had thought Covid had killed our book idea. But in August of 2020, we simultaneously realized the opposite was true. Covid perfectly framed what we wanted to say. And so began one of the most satisfying collaborations of my career, as co-author with a brilliant mind whose skills and knowledge …
Among the great (and some hilariously awful) editors I have worked with over the decades, Rebecca Saletan was among the best. From her I learned how I should work with writers. An audacious move got my first book accepted and assigned to Becky at the most prestigious and storied independent publisher still around at the …
Christine Cunningham explained to me the choice she made between being a vegetarian and a hunter. For her, the two choices were not far apart: they were both about integrity. The integrity of Christine’s writing, and that of her partner Steve Meyer, lights the pages of their book, The Land We Share: A love affair …
During our second conversation, over coffee, it came out that what Dan wanted most at 36 was to grow up. He had been addicted to marijuana for so long he had missed out on maturing as a man. I thought we were going to talk about his public speaking club. I hadn’t thought that topic …
“This was a satisfying and productive five-year partnership … This book reflects that partnership. It took us awhile as events kept coming in the way.”
“I … acknowledge the invaluable contribution of researcher and writer Charles Wohlforth, with whom I collaborated on this book and for whose assistance I am deeply grateful.”
"I have worked with Charles as a writing coach, and I have found him to be responsive and insightful, helping me to do the best of my own work."
In 1934, my grandmother, Mildred Wohlforth (pen name Mildred Gilman), went to Germany to interview Hitler on assignment with the New Yorker. After she confronted Hermann Goring with her investigative findings about the concentration camps and the status of Jews, the interview with Hitler was cancelled and she was followed by Gestapo agents. Her life …
"Charles brings new ideas, perceptive questions, and a sense of how to shape material and concepts into a powerful whole."
