about the author
Michael Hastings
Award-winning Journalist and Author of The Operators
Michael Hastings is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. He regularly covers international affairs for the magazine, including the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. In 2011, he received the George Polk Award in journalism for his Rolling Stone story “The Runaway General.” His work has appeared in Newsweek, GQ, Men’s Journal, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Salon, Foreign Policy, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, and a number of other publications. In 2010, Hastings was named one of The Huffington Post’s Game Changers of the year. His GQ story “Obama’s War” was selected for Best American Political Writing 2009. The author also of I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story, Hastings lives in Vermont.
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"Inside the Afghanistan war room"
San Antonio Express
"WikiLeaks' Assange Opens Up to Rolling Stone"
CBS's This Morning
"Junger, But Younger: Rolling Stone‘s Michael Hastings Celebrates His War Tome"
The New York Observer
Michael Hastings Interview
Capital New York
"Michael Hastings: McChrystal Was ‘Complex,’ Obama Was Naive, Afghanistan Is Hopeless"
Wired
Interview with Michael Hastings
Salon
"Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview"
Rolling Stone
"Michael Hastings: Pentagon Press Corps is an extension of Pentagon"
RT.com
The Operators Review
The Daily Beast
"Obama’s Power Grab at the Pentagon"
Reuters
"Book Review: The Operators Goes Inside War in Afghanistan"
Los Angeles Times
"Michael Hastings on War Journalists"
Salon
"Exclusive Excerpt: The Operators by Michael Hastings"
Rolling Stone
"21 Books to Read in 2012"
Foreign Policy
"The Runaway General"
Rolling Stone
"Why the Hacks Hate Michael Hastings"
Vanity Fair
"Afghanistan: Canadian General, Fired in Sex Scandal, Misfired Rifle"
True/Slant
"Newsweek: What Went Wrong"
The Huffington Post
"Iraq's New Hired Guns"
The Daily Beast
"Hack: Confessions of a Presidential Campaign Reporter"
GQ
"Before and After"
Los Angeles Times
"I’m Sorry We Couldn’t Do More"
The Daily Beast
"The Battle for Haifa Street"
The Daily Beast
"8 Long Days"
The Daily Beast
Featured Book
The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan
"An impressive feat of journalism by a Washington outsider who seemed to know more about what was going on in Washington than most insiders did."
—Frank Rich, The New York Times
"The most impact-laden story of the year...written by a perfect specimen of the new breed of journalist-commentator."
—Barrett Brown, Vanity Fair
Speaking Topics
- The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan
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