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Magnetic North: One Journalist's Quest to Make Sense of the Universe

Scott Carney, Nina Burleigh, Craig Unger, Dan McClellan, Theo Baker
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Authors

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  • Scott Carney

    Investigative journalist, anthropologist, author and YouTuber

  • Nina Burleigh

    National political journalist, author of 7 nonfiction books including The Trump Women: Part of the Deal; and the novellas Zero Visibility Possible and Turn Around Don't Drown, the first two in a trilogy of dystopic satires.

  • Craig Unger

    Craig is the NYT bestselling author of six books on the GOP's assault on democracy including American Kompromat, House of Trump, House of Putin and, most recently, Den of Spies. He has written for Vanity Fair, New York, and other publications.

  • Dan McClellan

    Public scholar of the Bible and religion & honorary fellow of Birmingham University's Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion

  • Theo Baker

    Journalist and author. Stanford student. Winner of the George Polk Award. HOW TO RULE THE WORLD out 5/19.

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