Nick Bryant
Nick Bryant is a writer and broadcaster who, over a 30-year career, is regarded as one of the BBC’s finest foreign correspondents, and its foremost commentator on the US.
BottomNick Bryant is a writer and broadcaster who, over a 30-year career, is regarded as one of the BBC’s finest foreign correspondents, and its foremost commentator on the US.
BottomDuring a career spanning almost thirty years, Nick Bryant established a global reputation as one of the BBC’s finest foreign correspondents. He has been posted in Washington, South Asia, Australia and, most recently, New York. He has covered many of the biggest stories of our time: the attacks of September 11th; the war in Afghanistan; the Asian tsunami; the election of Barack Obama; the election of Donald Trump.
His writing has appeared in The Economist, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Monthly and The New Statesman. He broadcasts regularly on the BBC and ABC. Nick studied history at Cambridge and has a doctorate in American politics from Oxford. He now lives in Sydney with his wife and three children.
His last book, When America Stopped Being Great: The History of the Present, currently resides on Joe Biden’s bookshelf in the Oval Office. His latest book is The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself.
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