Ronald Kessler

Ronald Kessler

Ronald Kessler is an American journalist who is the New York Times bestselling author of 17 non-fiction books. He is chief Washington correspondent of the right-wing website Newsmax.

Career

Kessler is the New York Times bestselling author of seventeen non-fiction books. Kessler began his career as a journalist in 1964 on the Worcester Telegram, followed by three years as an investigative reporter and editorial writer with the Boston Herald. In 1968, he joined the Wall Street Journal as a reporter in the New York bureau. He became an investigative reporter with the Washington Post in 1970 and continued as a staff writer until 1985. Kessler has authored 17 books, beginning with The Life Insurance Game in 1985. His subjects have ranged from the FBI and CIA to George Bush, Laura Bush, Joseph P. Kennedy, and Palm Beach. His latest book is The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack.

Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com, a web site with an average of 4.1 million unique visitors a month, and of Newsmax magazine, which has a readership of 600,000. His stories for Newsmax have included interviews with President Bush, Donald Trump, Andy Card, CIA Director Michael Hayden, Mitt Romney, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Lynne Cheney, Jim Cramer, Deborah Norville, Dana Perino, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, Brian Lamb, Margaret Spellings, Jeb Bush, and Fran Townsend.

Works

• The Life Insurance Game (1985)
• The Richest Man in the World (1986)
• Spy vs. Spy (1988)
• Moscow Station: How the KGB Penetrated the American Embassy (1989)
• The Spy in the Russian Club (1990)
• Escape from the CIA: How the CIA Won and Lost the Most Important Spy Ever to Defect to the U.S. (1991)
• Inside the CIA (1992)
• The FBI (1993)
• Inside the White House (1995)
• The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (1996)
• Inside Congress (1998) ISBN 0-671-00386-0 (1997)
• The Season: Inside Palm Beach and America's Richest Society (1999)
• The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI (2002)
• The CIA at War (2003) ISBN 0-312-31933-9 (2003)
• A Matter of Character: Inside the White House of George W. Bush (2004)
• Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady ISBN 0-385-51621-5 (2006)
• The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack (2007) ISBN 0-307-38213-3

Awards

Kessler has won sixteen journalism awards, including two George Polk awards — one for national reporting and one for community service. He won the top prize for business and financial reporting given by the Washington chapter of the Sigma Delta Chi society of professional journalists. Kessler has also won the American Political Science Association’s Public Affairs Reporting Award, the Associated Press’ Sevellon Brown Memorial Award, and Washingtonian magazine’s Washingtonian of the Year award.

External links

• Kessler's personal website. "Ronald Kessler"
• Appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart "The Daily Show"
• Talk on C-SPAN's Book TV: "The Terrorist Watch."
• The Washington Times "Inside the War"
• Q and A on "Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady"
• The Wall Street Journal, "Wiretap Dance," op-ed on the NSA intercepts, December 21, 2005.
• Bush Mythology in National Review
• National Review interview *"Uncovering Deep Throat" in National Review