Paul Berman is a writer on politics and literature, who lives in Brooklyn, NY. He is the author or editor of nine books, including The Fight of the Intellectuals (Melville House, 2010), Power and the Idealists: The Passion of Joschka Fischer and its Aftermath, with preface by Richard Holbrooke (W.W. Norton paperback, 2007), Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems (American Poets Project of the Library of America, 2006), Terror and Liberalism (W.W. Norton, 2003), A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1996 (W.W. Norton, 1996), Make-Believe Empire: A How-To Book, for children, with illustrations by the author (Atheneum, 1982), and other works. He is a contributing editor of The New Republic and a member of the board of editors of Dissent. He contributes regularly to the New York Times Book Review and other journals. Berman's books have been translated into fifteen languages.

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