David fisher author biography

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Repeating History, Episode 3 – Bestselling Author David Fisher

David Fisher is a Syracuse University alumnus and the author of more than 20 New York Times bestsellers. His latest book, America’s Deadliest Election, written with CNN National Political Correspondent Dana Bash, is released September 3rd. In this Repeating History, David and and host Robert Searing of the Onondaga Historical Association discuss the fascinating story of the 1872 Louisiana Gubernatorial election. Set amidst the constitutional revolution of Reconstruction, the conversation looks at the violence and partisanship surrounding that election and how its outcome impacted the nation in myriad profound ways. The parallels to our current political moment are legion and the conversation explores the lessons to draw from it.

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For more than three decades, David Fisher has been writing about an extraordinary variety of subjects, ranging from major league baseball umpires to Nobel Prize winning biochemists. He is the author of more than 80 books, among them 24 New York Times bestsellers, and has been a frequent contributor to major magazines and newspapers. He is the only writer ever to have a work of non-fiction, a novel and a reference book offered simultaneously by the Book-of-the Month Club.

He began his professional career as a staff writer for the late comedienne Joan Rivers’ syndicated talk show, That Show. From there he joined Life Magazine, when it was still published weekly, becoming the youngest reporter in that magazine’s history, covering primarily sports and youth culture.

He began his free-lance writing career with a children’s biography of Malcolm X. A year later he co-authored his first bestseller, Killer (Playboy Books) with ‘Joey Black,’ the first confessional written by a Mafia hit man. After writing a second bestseller with Joey Black, Hit #29, which was purchased by Paramount, as well as two additional books, he wrote the very first book about transcendental meditation, Tranquility Without Pills (Wyden Books). He wrote several others books about the world of cri

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