Andrew Gumbel
Andrew Gumbel is a British-born journalist and author.[1] who writes regularly for The Guardian[2], among other publications. His books include Oklahoma City: What The Investigation Missed and Why It Still Matters (William Morrow, 2012), Down For the Count: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America (The New Press, 2016), and Won't Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System (The New Press, forthcoming May 2020). He lives in Los Angeles.
Oklahoma City, which attracted positive reviews[3][4][5] in a number of publications, challenged the official account of the 1995 bombing and argued that a combination of bad luck and serious investigative missteps prevented the U.S. government from exposing the full breadth of the plot. "In hindsight," Gumbel writes, "[the investigation] looks less like a detective story than an anti-detective story, in which government investigators chose not to follow the evidence wherever it led. Instead they closed down critical lines of inquiry, for fear of what they might find and what it might reveal about their own failings."[6] Laura Miller, writing in Salon.com, noted that the book had "enough freak-show touches to keep an FX drama stocked for three seasons."[7] Gumbel had unique access to the full range of government documents used to try Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols -- more than a million pages in all, including more than 18,000 FBI witness interview reports -- and interviewed close to 150 people.[8][9]
Down for the Count explores the tawdry history of elections in the United States -- the only advanced western country, according to Gumbel, to have failed to establish a uniformly clean, transparent voting system -- and uses it to explain why we are now experiencing the biggest backslide in voting rights in more than a century.[10] Gumbel later wrote an essay, published in a collection entitled Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government for the People[11], that extended his argument into the Trump era. "The problem with seeking to repair America’s electoral system in the midst of a crisis is that it was never fully functional in the first place. This is not the same as saying that the system can’t function, or never has," he writes. "[But]… the tools of democracy we have are unable to deliver the strong system most of us want."[12]
Won't Lose This Dream, due to be published in May 2020[13], tells the story of how Georgia State University in Atlanta transformed the prospects of its lower-income students and kick-started a national conversation about what universities owe their students in an era when two-thirds of the jobs in the United States require some form of post-secondary qualification[14] and less than half of those starting university or community college finish within six years[15]. Publishers Weekly, in an early advance review, called the book "well-researched and provocative... accessible and inspirational" and a "must-read" for educators and policy-makers[16]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Andrew Gumbel". The New Press. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ↑ "Contributor page". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ↑ Epstein, Edward Jay (April 13, 2012). "Investigating the Investigation". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ↑ Isikoff, Michael (April 18, 2012). "Oklahoma City Bombing's Unanswered Questions in New Book". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ↑ Delcour, Julie (April 22, 2012). "Review: 'Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed - And Why It Still Matters'". Tulsa World. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ↑ Gumbel, Andrew; Charles, Roger G. (2012). Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed, and Why It Still Matters (1st ed.). New York: William Morrow. p. 6. ISBN 978-0061986451. Search this book on
- ↑ Miller, Laura (April 23, 2012). ""Oklahoma City": The Bubba job". Salon.com. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ↑ Schultz, Marc. "Oklahoma City, 17 Years On: A Q&A with Andrew Gumbel". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ↑ Gumbel, Andrew; Charles, Roger G. (2012). Oklahoma City: What The Investigation Missed -- And Why It Still Matters (1st ed.). New York: William Morrow. pp. 5, 416. ISBN 978-0061986451. Search this book on
- ↑ Gumbel, Andrew (2016). Down for the Count: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in American (Revised and updated ed.). New York: The New Press. pp. 4–5. ISBN 9781620971680. Search this book on
- ↑ Orr, David W.; Gumbel, Andrew; Kitwana, Bakari; Becker, William S. (eds.) (2020). Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government for the People (1st ed.). The New Press. ISBN 978-1-62097-513-8.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link) Search this book on
- ↑ Andrew Gumbel (2020). "When Democracy Becomes Something Else: The Problem of Elections and What To Do About It". In Orr, David W.; Gumbel, Andrew; Kitwana, Bakari; Becker, William S. Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government for the People (1st ed.). New York: The New Press. pp. 68–69. ISBN 978-1-62097-513-8. Search this book on
- ↑ "Won't Lose This Dream". The New Press. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ↑ Carnevale, Anthony P.; Smith, Nicole; Strohl, Jeff (June 2013). "Recovery: Job Growth and Education Requirements through 2020". Washington, D.C.: Georgetown Public Policy Institute Center on Education and the Workforce: 15.
- ↑ Nadworny, Elissa (March 13, 2019). "College Completion Rates Are Up, But The Numbers Will Still Surprise You". NPR. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ↑ "Won't Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
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