Peter L. Bergen

Peter L. Bergen

Peter L. Bergen (Peter Lampert Bergen) was born on December 12th, 1962 and is currently 63 years old. Peter L. Bergen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Bergen attended New College, Oxford where he received a degree in modern history. He also attended Ampleforth College.

Peter L. Bergen is a producer, journalist, and author. He is CNN’s national security analyst, a professor at Arizona State University, a vice president at New America, and hosts In the Room with Peter Bergen. In 1997, he produced the first TV interview with Osama bin Laden, which first aired on CNN.

Peter has held teaching jobs at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University.

He was a contributing editor at The New Republic for numerous years, and was editor of South Asia Daily and South Asia Channel, and from 2009 to 2016, he edited online publications of Foreign Policy.

Three of his books have been bestsellers, while four have been named among the best non-fiction of the year by Washington Post, and they’ve been translated into 24 languages.

Peter received the 2000 Leonard Silk Journalism Fellowship and was the Pew Journalist in Residence at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in 2001 during the writing of one of his books.

The Osama bin Laden I Know and Holy War, Inc. were each adapted into documentaries which each got Emmy Award nominations.

In Manhunt: The Ten Year Search for bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad, Peter delivers this taut yet panoramic account of the pursuit and eventual killing of bin Laden. Here are some riveting new details of his flight after the crushing defeat of the Taliban to Tora Bora, where the American forces came stunning close to capturing him, and about the fugitive leader’s efforts to find some kind of secure hiding place.

Peter was the sole journalist to gain access to bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound before it was demolished by the Pakistani government, he paints a vivid picture of bin Laden’s Spartan and grim life while in hiding and his struggles to maintain control of al-Qaeda.

Half a world away, Peter takes us into the Situation Room, where President Obama considers the courses of action that are presented to him by his war council and gets conflicting advice from his top advisors before he decides to risk the raid which would change history. And then inside of the Joint Special Ops Command, whose own “secret warriors”, the SEALs, would execute Operation Neptune Spear. Right from the moment two Black Hawks depart from Afghanistan until bin Laden says his last words, this book reads like a thriller.

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