Sydney Writers' Festival

TONY MANIATY (LOCAL)
Tony Maniaty is a broadcast journalist, author and media lecturer specialising in TV journalism and international affairs. He is the Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism at UTS.

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256: Commentariat

ANDREW BACEVICH (INTERNATIONAL)
Andrew J. Bacevich is Professor of history and international relations at Boston University. A graduate of the US Military Academy, he received his PhD in American diplomatic history from Princeton. Before joining the faculty of Boston University in 1998, he taught at West Point and at Johns Hopkins.

Dr Bacevich is the author of several books, including The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War and American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy. He is the editor of The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy since World War II and Imperial Tense: Problems and Prospects of American Empire.

His essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of scholarly and general interest publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The Wilson Quarterly, The London Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation and The New Republic. His op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times, among other newspapers. Dr Bacevich is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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103: The Lessons of Vietnam
306: American Dreaming

JON LEE ANDERSON (INTERNATIONAL)
Jon Lee Anderson has been writing for the New Yorker since 1998. He has reported frequently from Iraq and has covered the conflicts in Afghanistan and Lebanon. He has also reported from Liberia, Angola, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba and Iran. He has written numerous profiles of political leaders, including Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Augusto Pinochet.

Anderson is the author of several books, including Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, The Lion’s Grave: Dispatches From Afghanistan, Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World and, most recently, The Fall of Baghdad. He is the co-author, with Scott Anderson, of War Zones: Voices from the World’s Killing Grounds and Inside the League.

Anderson began his career in 1979 as a reporter for the English-language weekly The Lima Times, in Lima, Peru. He reported on Central America’s civil wars for Time magazine during the 1980s. He went on to cover the conflicts in Northern Ireland, Uganda, Western Sahara, Sri Lanka, Burma, Israel and Bosnia. His work has been published in the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Harper’s, The Financial Times, The Guardian, El Pais and other journals.

Jon Lee Anderson’s participation in Sydney Writers’ Festival 2008 is supported by La Trobe University.

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290: Jon Lee Anderson on Latin America