Michael D'Antonio (born May 11, 1955) is an American author, journalist, and commentator on

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. He shared the 1984

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with a team of ''

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'' reporters for their coverage of the Baby Jane Doe Case. He has written over a dozen books, including '' Never Enough'', a 2015 biography of

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, and ''A Consequential President'', a 2017 book on the

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. His book ''Mortal Sins'' was a 2014

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nominee. D'Antonio was born in

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, and graduated from the

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in 1977. He wrote for the ''Dover Democrat'' in New Hampshire from 1976 to 1977, and the ''

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'' in Maine from 1977 to 1983 before joining ''Newsday'' as a writer, where he worked from 1983 to 1990. He was also a contributing editor to ''

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'' magazine.

Books

*''Fall From Grace: The Failed Crusade of the Christian Right'' (1990) *''Heaven on Earth: Dispatches From America's Spiritual Frontier'' (1992) *''Atomic Harvest: Hanford and the Lethal Toll of America's Nuclear Arsenal'' (1993) *''The Best Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and the Covenant of Caring'' (with Mike Magee) (1999) *''Tin Cup Dreams: A Long Shot Makes it on the PGA Tour'' (2000) *''The Fourth Mega-Market, Now Through 2011'' (with Ralph Acampora) (2000) *''Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe'' (with Andrew Spielman) (2001) *''Tour '72: Nicklaus, Palmer, Player, Trevino; The Story of One Great Season'' (2002). *''Fun While It Lasted: My Rise and Fall in the Land of Fame and Fortune'' (with

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) (2003) *''The State Boys Rebellion'' (2004) *''Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams'' (2006) *''A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957 – The Space Race Begins'' (2007) *''Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O’Malley, Baseball’s Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles'' (2009) *''A Full Cup: Sir Thomas Lipton's Extraordinary Life and His Quest for the America’s Cup'' (2010) *''Spend Shift: How the Post-Crisis Values Revolution Is Changing the Way We Buy, Sell, and Live'' (with John Gerzema) (2010) *''The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future'' (with John Gerzema) (2013) *''Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal'' (2013) *'' Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success'' (2015) (reprinted as ''The Truth About Trump'', 2016) *''A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama'' (2017) *''The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence'' (with Peter Eisner) (2018) *''The Hunting of Hillary: The Forty-Year Campaign to Destroy Hillary Clinton'' (2020) *''High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump'' (with Peter Eisner) (2020)

References

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