David E. Sanger

Books & Books will welcome David E. Sanger, author of the bestselling Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power. Currently the Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times, Sanger is a graduate of Harvard College and has been with the Times for 30 years covering foreign policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation and the presidency. In addition to taking part in two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, he has been awarded numerous other awards for his national security and foreign policy coverage. Confront and Conceal provides an up-close look at Obama's administration, taking the reader into the Situation Room debate over Iran's program, dissecting how the bin Laden raid worsened our relationship with Pakistan, and how President Obama's early idealism about the war in Afghanistan quickly turned to frustration.