Jon Lee Anderson
Jon Lee Anderson is an author and a staff writer for the New Yorker. As a longtime observer of political violence and revolutionary movements, he has reported from many war zones over the years, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Anderson also wrote a celebrated biography of Argentine revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and, in the course of his research, discovered the long-concealed whereabouts of Guevara’s secretly buried body in Bolivia. His latest book is To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban.
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