Peter L. W. Osnos

Gebundenes Buch

Would You Believe...the Helsinki Accords Changed the World?

Human Rights And, for Decades, Security in Europe

Beschreibung

The fascinating saga of how an underestimated diplomatic accord in 1975 changed history in the next half-century: highlighting human rights and security in Europe and leading to the creation of Human Rights Watch, one of the world's leading NGOs. 

Autor

Peter L.W.Osnos was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) India on October 13, 1943. He arrived in Los Angeles by ship with his parents and brother in February 1944. He was raised in New York and attended high school in Connecticut, college at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachisetts and graduate school at Columbia University., He worked as an assistant to the journalist I.F.Stone and joined The Washington Post in 1966. At the Post, Osnos served as a correspondent in Vietnam, the Soviet Union and London. He was also the national and foreign editor. In 1984, Osnos joined Random House as a senior editor and later associate publisher as well as publisher of the Times Books imprint. In 1997, he founded PublicAffairs in partnership with the Perseus Books Group and served as publisher and editor at large until 2020. He was the founder of the Caravan Project on the development of digital and audio publishing, author of a weekly media column called Platform which was hosted by The Century Foundation and appeared on TheAtlantic.com and in 2020, launched Platform Books LLC with his wife, Susan Sherer Osnos. The first book was "An Especially Good View: Watching History Happen" released in May, 2021. It is Osnos' memoir, distributed by Two Rivers/Ingram. He is also the editor of “George Soros: A Life in Full” (Platform Books/Harvard Business Review Press, 2022). He is the father of two children, Evan Osnos and Katherine Sanford, and grandfather of five. He and his wife now live in New York City and Lakeside, Michigan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Platform Books, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 231mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9781735996899
• ISBN-10: 1735996890
• Artikelnr.: 64541329