journalist
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and author. He has written a series of non-fiction books, including three about America's relationship with China and four more about
American foreign policy
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. His group biography about
George W. Bush
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's war cabinet, ''Rise of The Vulcans'', was a ''New York Times'' best-seller. As a newspaper journalist, he worked for more than two decades for the ''
Los Angeles Times
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Beijing
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bureau chief, and foreign-policy columnist. Earlier in his career, he worked at ''
The Washington Post
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'', where he took part in the newspaper's Watergate coverage.
Life
Mann was born and raised in
Albany, New York
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, where both his father Jay D. Mann and his grandfather Abraham Mann were local physicians. His mother, Peggy Lebair Mann, was the coach of women's tennis at the State University of New York at Albany, as well as a longtime tennis umpire who officiated at both the U.S. Open and at Wimbledon. Mann graduated from
Harvard University
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in 1968 with a BA in
sociology
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. During his 33-year newspaper career, he worked for the ''New Haven Journal-Courier'', ''The Washington Post'', ''
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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'', ''
The Baltimore Sun
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'', and the ''Los Angeles Times''. He served as Chief of the Beijing bureau of the ''Los Angeles Times'' from 1984 to 1987.
His magazine articles have appeared in ''
The New Republic
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'', ''
The Atlantic Monthly
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It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...
The American Prospect
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'', and ''
The American Lawyer
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Awards
*1993; 1999 Edwin M. Hood Award for diplomatic correspondence, by the National Press Club
*1997
Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
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*1999 Edward Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting
*2005 Berlin Prize
*2000 New York Public Library Helen Bernstein book award.
*2000 Asia Pacific Book Award (Japan)
*2010 Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union
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Works
*; reprint Westview Press, 1997, . A case study of how one of the first American companies to enter the China market discovered the realities of how tough it is to do business there. In 2005, '' Fortune'' magazine included this book on its list of 75 all-time great books about business.
* ''About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship With China From Nixon to Clinton'', Alfred Knopf, 1999, A history of America's often-hidden hidden diplomacy with China. This book won the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein and the Asia-Pacific Award; it was also short-listed as a finalist for the
Lionel Gelber Prize
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.
* A New York Times best-seller, this book was one of the finalists for the Arthur Ross book award of the Council on Foreign Relations.
*; reprint
Penguin Books
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*''The Great Rift: Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and the Broken Friendship That Defined an Era.'' Henry Holt and Company, 2020.
UC Berkeley
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