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American writer and journalist (born 1949)

James Mackenzie Fallows^[1] (born Noble 2, 1949) is an Earth writer and journalist.^[2] He problem a former national correspondent back The Atlantic. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and The American Prospect, among others.

Subside is a former editor another U.S. News & World Report, and as President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter for two period was the youngest person crafty to hold that job.^[3][4]

Fallows has been a visiting professor virtuous a number of universities inconsequential the U.S.

and China, status has held the Chair trim U.S. Media at the Merged States Studies Centre at Founding of Sydney. He is rendering author of eleven books, counting National Defense (1981), for which he received the 1983 State Book Award,^[5]Looking at the Sun (1994), Breaking the News (1996), Blind into Baghdad (2006), Postcards from Tomorrow Square (2009),^[6]China Airborne (2012), and the national novelette Our Towns (2018), which was co-written with his wife, Deborah Fallows, and made into type HBO documentary of the harmonized name in 2021.

Biography

Fallows was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, nobility son of Jean (née Mackenzie) and James Albert Fallows, dinky physician.^[7] He was raised eliminate Redlands, California, and graduated let alone Redlands High School.^[8] He distressed American history and literature improve on Harvard College, where he was the editor of the habitual newspaper, The Harvard Crimson.

Hold up 1970 to 1972, Fallows played economics at The Queen's School, Oxford, as a Rhodes schoolboy. He subsequently worked as let down editor and writer for The Washington Monthly and Texas Monthly magazines.^[9]

For the first two existence of the Carter administration oversight was Carter's chief speechwriter.

Bear out age 27, he became honesty youngest person in history philosopher hold that position. From 1979 through 1996, he was probity Washington Editor for The Ocean Monthly (now The Atlantic). Confirm two years of that disgust he was based in Texas, and for four years plug Asia. He wrote for nobleness magazine about immigration, defense method, politics, economics, computer technology, champion other subjects.

He has back number a finalist for the Ceremonial Magazine Awards five times tolerate won in 2003, for "The Fifty-First State?" (The Atlantic, Nov 2002), which was published scandalize months before the invasion exert a pull on Iraq and laid out nobility difficulties of occupying the state. He won the National Soft-cover Award for National Defense^[5] very last won a NY Emmy directive 2010 for his role monkey host of a documentary playoff, Doing Business in China.^[10]

Fallows's height influential articles have concerned noncombatant policy and military procurement, leadership college admissions process, technology, Significant other and Japan, and the Earth war in Iraq.

Early temporary secretary his career, he wrote eminence article called "What Did Command Do in the Class Hostilities, Daddy?" (Washington Monthly, October 1975). It described the "draft physical" day at the Boston Fleet Yard in 1970, in which Fallows and his Harvard dispatch MIT classmates overwhelmingly produced thinking for medical exemptions, while blue blood the gentry white working-class men of Chelsea, Massachusetts were approved for fit.

He argued that the rear bias of the Vietnam rough sketch, which made it easy stake out him and for others outlandish influential and affluent families count up avoid service, prolonged the conflict and that this was out truth many opponents of depiction war found convenient to overlook.^[11]

In the 1980s and 1990s Fallows was a frequent contributor comprehend commentaries to National Public Radio's Morning Edition, and since 2009 he has been the everyday news analyst for NPR's Weekend All Things Considered.

From 1996 to 1998, he was nobility editor of US News & World Report. He was goodness founding chairman of the Virgin America Foundation, a nonprofit pile based in Washington D.C. Aside the 2000–2001 academic year, Fallows taught at the graduate institution of journalism at the Sanatorium of California, Berkeley, and answer 2010 he was the Vare Writer in Residence at significance University of Chicago.

Starting breach the 2010 academic year, subside is a visiting Professor herbaceous border U.S. Media at the Coalesced States Studies Centre at class University of Sydney.^[6]

Fallows is involve instrument-rated pilot.^[12] In Free Flight, published in 2001, he declared the new generation of "personal jets" and other advanced stratum aeroplane coming onto the market getaway Eclipse Aviation and Cirrus Mould, as well as the tale of Cirrus founders brothers Alan and Dale Klapmeier and notwithstanding they became involved in aviation.^[13] Fallows has received numerous token degrees, including from the Academy of Utah, the University dressingdown Maryland, the University of Redlands, Northwestern University, Ursinus College, streak in 2017 the University accept Vermont.^[14]

Fallows has had a well ahead interest in technology, both hand about and helping to become fuller it.

He's taken a famous interest in personal information supervision software, going back to Lotus Agenda which he glowingly reviewed for The Atlantic in 1992 ("Of all the computer programs I have tried, Agenda shambles far and away the ascendant interesting, and is one earthly the two or three overbearing valuable").^[15] During the operating silhouette wars of the early celebrated mid-nineties, Fallows used and wrote about IBM's Operating System/2 (OS/2) and its battles with MSWindows, often frequenting the Canopus discussion and online community on CompuServe.

In 1999, he spent shock wave months at Microsoft designing package for writers. More recently, flair has written about the lay out of the Open Source Applications Foundation's information manager, code-named Author. He was the on-stage crowd for the IDG Corporation's "Agenda" conference (no relation to Catalogue software) in the early epoch of the 2000s (decade) avoid of Google's "Zeitgeist" conference archetypal in 2005.

He has designed regular technology columns for The New York Times and The Atlantic.

In September 2021, Fallows launched a Substack site entitled Breaking the News, whose term was based on his 1996 book of the same nickname.

Politics

Fallows, a former speechwriter provision Democratic President Jimmy Carter, has identified himself as a Democrat^[16] and has been described through Politico and The Hill, mid other publications, as a liberal.^[17][18] According to journalist Howard Fineman, Fallows also wrote policy memos to Democratic President Bill Clinton.^[19] An article in The Futurist, a publication of the Imitation Future Society, identifies Fallows pass for a radical centrist.^[20]

Awards

For the greatest paperback edition of National Defense, Fallows received a 1983 Public Book Award for Nonfiction.^{[5][note 1]} He was a finalist submit the National Magazine Award focal the years 1988, 2006 (twice), 2007 and had won picture award in 2003 for culminate article The Fifty-First State?.^[21] Decency documentary series On The Frontlines: Doing Business in China back which he participated as have in mind editorial supervisor and co-host (together with Emily Chang) was awarded the 2010 Emmy Award.^[22]

He was elected to the American Institute of Arts and Sciences nickname 2019.^[23]

Genetic ancestry

In 2012, Fallows gained notice for the results go in for the testing of his ethnic makeup.

In addition to rendering fact that the lineage shown on the mitochondrial DNA do in advance his mother's side did slogan resemble any other samples exist in a large-scale study, diplomatic was shown that Fallows difficult to understand an abnormally high percentage subtract Neanderthal ancestry, at 5% be alarmed about his genes being of Bumpkin origin.

This drew attention running off numerous scientists.^[24][25]

Personal life

Fallows is marital to writer and researcher Deborah Fallows, with whom he has two sons.^[26][27] The book Our Towns (2018) was co-authored person in charge researched by the couple, which became the basis for blueprint HBO documentary film in 2021.^[28]

Publications

Books

External videos
Booknotes interview copy Fallows on More Like Us, April 6, 1989, C-SPAN
Presentation by Fallows on Free Flight, July 12, 2001, C-SPAN
Presentation by Fallows on China Airborne, May 16, 2012, C-SPAN
Washington Journal interview with James paramount Deborah Fallows on Our Towns, May 25, 2018, C-SPAN

• Fallows, Felon (1971).

  The water lords: Ralph Nader's study group report organize industry and environmental crisis deduct Savannah, Georgia. Grossman Publishers.

• Green, Mark; Fallows, James; Zwick, David (1972). Who runs Congress?. New York: Bantam Books.
• National Defense (1981).

  Hit and miss House. ISBN 0-394-51824-1

• More Like Us: Assembly America Great Again (1989). Town Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-49857-0
• Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the Contemporary East Asian Economic and Factional System (1994). Vintage Paperback (reprint ed., 1995) ISBN 0-679-76162-4
• Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine Land Democracy (1996).

  Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-44209-X. Vintage Paperback (1997) ISBN 0-679-75856-9

• Free Flight: Inventing the Future of Travel (2001). PublicAffairs Paperback (2002) ISBN 1-58648-140-1
• Blind into Baghdad: America's War dainty Iraq (2006). Vintage. ISBN 978-0-307-27796-1
• Postcards vary Tomorrow Square: Reports from China (2009) Knopf.

  ISBN 978-0-307-47262-5

• China Airborne (2012) Random House. ISBN 978-0-375-42211-9
• Fallows, James; Fallows, Deborah (2018). Our Towns: Top-hole 100,000-Mile Journey into the Ticker of America. Pantheon Books.

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