John Heilemann

John Arthur Heilemann (born January 23, 1966) is an American journalist for New York magazine, where he mainly covers US politics. He is the co-author (with Mark Halperin) of Double Down and Game Change, books about Presidential campaigns. He previously was a staff writer for The New Yorker, Wired, and The Economist. He is the author of a previous book, Pride Before the Fall, about the Microsoft antitrust case. He was the host of a four-part documentary series for Discovery called Download: the True Story of the Internet, about the rise of the World Wide Web, which first aired in 2008. Heilemann is also an MSNBC political analyst.

Heilemann holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Political Science from Northwestern University and a master's degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Heilemann has recalled a day at Harvard when while smoking on campus, he was asked by Barack Obama, then a student at Harvard Law, for a cigarette.

Bibliography

• John Heilemann Pride Before the Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates and the End of the Microsoft Era, Collins Business, January 9, 2001, ISBN 0-06-662117-8
• Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, Harper, January 2010, ISBN 0-06-173363-6
• Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, Double Down: Game Change 2012, Penguin Press, November 2013 ISBN 1594204403

External links

• Article archive at New York magazine
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• John Heilemann at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by or about John Heilemann in libraries (WorldCat catalog)