Michael weiss journalist biography of william

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4.5 cubic feet (4 boxes + 1 oversized flat box)

The collection is arranged in 5 series: Series 1: Interview Notes; Series 2: Research Files; Series 3: Book Files; Series 4: Audiovisual Materials; and Series 5: Newspapers. Photographs were separated and are stored with the San Francisco Historical Photographs collection

The collection contains the research material Weiss collected for his book Double Play: the San Francisco City Hall Killings. There are interview notes, copies of San Francisco Police department documents, newspapers, correspondence, and audiotapes relating to Dan White's assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978. There are also transcripts and newspaper clippings for White's trial in 1979

Mike Weiss is a newspaper journalist and author

The collection is available for use during San Francisco History Center hours, with photographs available during Photo Desk hours. Collections that are stored offsite should be requested 48 hours in advance

[Identification of item], Mike Weiss Double Play Collection (SFH 34), San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

Copyright and literary rights retained by Mike Weiss

Collection materials are in English

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    Michael weiss journalist biography of william


  • Michael weiss skater

    • journalist, essayist, author

    Praise for "isis: inside the army of terror"

    The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice:

    "Weiss and Hassan provide a detailed explanation of how the Islamic State 'manages savagery' on the ground . . . this account of the Islamic State in Iraq is a valuable summation and the most serious book length study of the Islamic State to be published so far.”

    Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times:

    “ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror”. . .draws upon the authors’ extensive reporting — including interviews with dozens of ISIS associates in Iraq and Syria, among them religious clerics, fighters, security officials and sympathizers — to give readers a fine-grained look at the organization’s evolution through assorted incarnations.”

    Anderson Cooper, Host of AC360 (CNN)

     "A remarkable book."

    Kareem Shaheen, The Guardian

     "Easily the best history I've read of the evolution of the terror group." 

    Kevin Sullivan, RealClearPolitics

     “Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan provide a comprehensive account of how the Islamic State came to be, who is to blame for its emergence, and why world leaders should be worried about its expansion.”

    Michael Weiss

    6 Appearances
    Author; Investigative Reporter, CNN

    Videos 6

    • Michael Weiss
      World, PoliticsAir Date 06/16/2017
      Michael Weiss on the Russian airstrike that may have killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
    • Michael Weiss; Oliver Stone
      World, Entertainment, PoliticsAir Date 06/16/2017
      Michael Weiss on the airstrike that may have killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Oliver Stone on "The Putin Interviews."
    • Michael Weiss
      World, PoliticsAir Date 03/10/2017
      Michael Weiss, the co-author of the bestseller, "ISIS: Inside The Army of Terror."
    • Michael Weiss; Jackie Stevens; Tory Burch
      World, Politics, BusinessAir Date 03/10/2017
      Michael Weiss, the co-author of "ISIS." Fashion designer Tory Burch. Jackie Stevens on immigration and the prison industry.
    • Foreign Policy
      World, PoliticsAir Date 02/09/2017
      Guest host Katty Kay of BBC News is joined by Michael Weiss, Olivier O’Mahony, Melik Kaylan, and Jerome Cohen to discuss Trump era foreign policy.
    • Paris Terror Attacks
      World, PoliticsAir Date 11/16/2015
      A panel examines the political and military reactions to the November 13th terror attacks in Paris.

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    Not so briefly...

    Michael Weiss has reported on international affairs for over ten years with a dual focus on the Middle East and Russia. He has interviewed ISIS operatives and Russian spies; published and curated a series of still-classified KGB training manuals; reported from rebel-held Syria and war-torn Ukraine; broken major stories about financial corruption; and exposed the Russian intelligence services’ ongoing subversion efforts in the United States and Europe. 

    His work has appeared in The Daily Beast, where maintains a column, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and a host of other publications. A regular commentator on television, Weiss has covered the rise of ISIS and its spate of Western terror attacks for CNN, where he has been both a contributor and a national security analyst. He's appeared on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Morning Joe, and Ronan Farrow Daily on MSNBC; Out Front with Erin Burnett and AC360 on CNN; Newsday on BBC World News; and Kennedy, America’s Newshour, and The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News, as well as on Charlie Rose and Real Time with Bill Maher. 

    Weiss is best known as the coauthor of the New York Times Bestseller ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, which was also named one of the Top Ten Books on Terrorism by the Wall Street Journal and one of the Best Books of 2015 by the Timesof London.  It was first released in paperback and then, owing to its commercial and critical success, re-released in hardcover "revised and expanded" edition. The book has been translated into seventeen foreign languages and is still regarded by many experts to be the best history of the terror organization yet published. 

    Weiss is also the author of The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money, a 2014 pamphlet study on Russian disinformation and propaganda, which

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