I Was an Astor Trial Juror
Philip Bump, a technology and communications consultant in New York City, served for six months as a juror in the case of the People of the State of New York vs. Anthony Marshall and Francis Morrissey. He writes a column, 'The Wayback Machine,' for Mediate.com. Mr. Bump lives in Manhattan with his wife, China, and his dog, Lucy.
For six months, I was sequestered with 11 other jurors to decide the fate of Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall. Inside the fraught jury deliberations.
The Republican Bestseller Machine
Ben Crair is an associate editor at The Daily Beast.
Glenn Beck's new three-book deal shows that while conservatives wander the political wilderness, they continue to dominate book sales. As Ben Crair demonstrates, the hit parade stems from title and marketing formulas that are nothing short of scientific.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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