Hendrik Hertzberg

Hendrik Hertzberg (born 1943) is an American journalist, best known as the principal political commentator for The New Yorker magazine. He has also been a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and editor of The New Republic, and is the author of ¡Obámanos! The Rise of a New Political Era and Politics: Observations & Arguments. On January 22, 2009, Forbes named Hertzberg one of the "25 Most Influential Liberals in the U.S. Media", placing him at number seventeen. The son of Sidney Hertzberg, a journalist and political activist, and Hazel Whitman Hertzberg, a professor of history and education at Columbia University, Hertzberg was born in New York City and educated in the public schools of Rockland County, New York, and Harvard College,...