Annie Jacobsen is the author of Nuclear War, the Pulitzer Prize finalist in history The Pentagon's Brain, the New York Times bestsellers Area 51 and Operation Paperclip, and other books. She was a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons. Jacobsen's books have been named Best of the Year and Most Anticipated by outlets including The Washington Post, USA Today, The Boston Globe, Apple, and Amazon. Coverage has ranged from The New York Times to Joe Rogan's podcast.
Praise for First Platoon
One of Houston Chronicle's "10 books that brought a little magic to
their genres" in 2021 | One of Science for the People's "Best
Science Books of the Year" | On The Octavian's 2021 Book List
“Jacobsen brings empathy, compassion, compelling writing, and some
truly dogged reporting.”—The Washington Post
“Jacobsen follows the lives of Americans told to gather that data
in Afghanistan—and she questions what the U.S. government means to
do with it all.”—NPR
“A deeply researched book about modern warfare. A startling prompt
to stop worrying about fabricated conspiracy theories and to
consider for a moment actual threats to privacy.”—Houston
Chronicle
“First Platoon tells two parallel stories that will keep those of
us concerned about civil liberties up at night. Jacobsen dives into
the troubling tale of 1st Lt. Clint Lorance, the disgraced former
military leader who ordered the murder of Afghan civilians in one
of the ugliest events for the U.S. military in the continuous wars
since 9/11. She takes the story far beyond Lorance’s controversial
pardon by President Donald Trump, though, detailing a largely
unreported secretive program to catalog the personal and physical
information of 80% of the Afghan population in a quest for
‘identity dominance.'”—The Seattle Times
“A thought-provoking tale.... Bombshell finding.”—Military History
Magazine
“This fascinating book functions as modern history but also a
cautionary tale about the heavily gray area of the War on Terror
and its tactics. This is grade A Journalism.” —San Francisco City
Book Review (five star review)
Praise for Nuclear War
“Gripping . . . essential if you want to understand the complex and
disturbing details that go into a civilization-destroying decision
to drop the Bomb on an enemy. . . . Jacobsen has done her homework.
She has spent more than a decade interviewing dozens of experts
while mastering the voluminous literature on the subject, some of
it declassified only in recent years.” — New York Times
Book Review
“Timeless, masterful. . .A stomach-clenching, multi-perspective,
ticking-clock, geopolitical thriller. Jacobsen expertly delivers a
madman’s portrait of Armageddon, one made all the more impactful by
the thought that it could literally occur at any moment. Almost
novel-like in its presentation, Nuclear War: A
Scenario represents the equivalent of an existential gut
punch, a sickening and necessary reminder of how fragile every 21st
century convenience becomes in the face of a blinding flash of
light and near-instantaneous shockwave. Exhaustively researched and
featuring interviews with professionals who truly understand just
how close we continue to creep toward thermonuclear
annihilation Nuclear War: A Scenario should be required
reading for everyone alive today, especially for the politicians
and policymakers who literally hold the precarious fate of our
species in their hands.” — Forbes
“At once methodical and vivid. In documenting the minutiae of the
apocalypse, the writing is redolent of 'Hiroshima', a seminal
article by John Hersey published in the New Yorker in
1946.” — The Economist
“An urgent warning guaranteed to cause nightmares.” — Kirkus
Reviews
“Jacobsen seeks to break through jargon and details in order to
tell a terrifying story in a devastatingly straightforward way.”
— The Guardian
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