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David E. Sanger Biography

He is the author of three books: Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Powe (Crown, June 2012); The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power (Harmony, 2009), which was a best-seller; and The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age (Crown, 2018).

David E. Sanger Age

David E. Sanger was born on July 5, 1960, in White Plains, New York United States. David E. Sange is 58 years old as of 2018.

David E. Sanger Net worth

David E. Sanger earns his income from his work as a correspondent for The New York Times. He also earns his income from his business management and other related organizations. He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.

David E. Sanger Education

David E. Sanger attended White Plains High School. He then joined Harvard College where he graduated with magna cum laude in government from Harvard College. and later presided to Harvard University where he finished his studies.

David E. Sanger Family

David E. Sanger was born in White Plains, New York United States to Joan S. (mother) and Kenneth E. Sanger (father). His paternal grandfather was Elliott Sanger, a co-founder of WQXR-FM, the radio station of The New York Times; and his paternal grandmother was Eleanor Naumburg Sanger (grandniece of Elkan Naumburg), who served as program director of WQXR. He has one sister, Ellin Gail Sanger Agress.

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David E. Sanger Wife

David E. Sanger is married to Sherill Ann Leonard, a law clerk, in a non-denominational ceremony in the Memorial Church of Harvard University.

David E. Sanger Chief Washington correspondent

David E. Sanger is the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times and one of the newspaper’s senior writers. He has worked for here for 30 years as his career at the paper, he has also reported from the New York, times in Tokyo, and Washington, specializing in foreign policy, national security and the politics of globalization. Soon after joining the Times in 1982, Sanger began specializing in the confluence of economic and foreign policy. Throughout the ’80s and ’90s, he wrote extensively about how issues of national wealth and competitiveness came to redefine the relationships between the United States and its major allies.

He was correspondent and then bureau chief in Tokyo for six years, traveling widely in Asia. He wrote some of the first pieces describing North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, the rise and fall of Japan as one of the world’s economic powerhouses, and China’s emerging role. Returning to Washington in 1994, he took up the position of Chief Washington Economic Correspondent and covered a series of global economic upheavals, from Mexico to the Asian economic crisis.

He was named a senior writer in March 1999, and White House correspondent later that year. He was named Chief Washington Correspondent in October 2006. In 1986 he played a major role in the team that investigated the causes of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. The team revealed the design flaws and bureaucratic troubles that contributed to the disaster and won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. A decade later he was a member of another Pulitzer-winning team that wrote about the Clinton administration’s struggles to control exports to China.

Sanger was awarded, in 2004, the Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting for his coverage of the Iraq and Korea crises. He also won the Aldo Beckman prize for coverage of the presidency. In both 2003 and 2007, he was awarded the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for coverage of national security strategy. He also shared the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ top award for deadline writing in 2004, for team coverage of the Columbia disaster.

In 2007, The New York Times received the DuPont Award from the Columbia Journalism School for Nuclear Jihad: Can Terrorists Get the Bomb?, a documentary featuring him and colleague William J. Broad, and their investigation into the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network. Their revelations in the Times about the network became a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2011, Sanger was part of another team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for International Reporting for their coverage of the Japanese tsunami and nuclear disaster.

David E. Sanger Books

Sanger has written two books on US foreign policy. His first book is The New York Times best-seller The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power (2009), based on his seven years as the Times White House correspondent, covering two wars, the confrontations with Iran, North Korea and other states that are described in Western media as “rogue” states, and America’s efforts to deal with the rise of China.

He has a written a second book of Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power (2012) is an account of how Obama has dealt with those challenges, relying on innovative weapons (such as UAVs and cyber warfare, such as Operation Olympic Games) and reconfigured tools of American power.

In 2016 General James Cartwright, then the retired Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff pleaded guilty to making false statements in connection with the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, some of which appeared in one of the two books by David Sanger. Sanger’s 2018 book is The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age.

• The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age 2018
• Confront and Conceal 2012
• Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power 2012
• The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power 2009
• Closing the Great Divide 2002
• The New Trade Agenda 2002

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David E. Sanger NewYork times

David E. Sanger is a national security correspondent and a senior writer. In a 36-year reporting career for The New York Times, he has been on three teams that have won Pulitzer Prizes, most recently in 2017 for international reporting. His newest book, “The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age,’’ examines the emergence of cyberconflict as the primary way large and small states are competing and undercutting each other, changing the nature of global power. Sanger is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.

David E. Sanger Awards

David E. Sanger has been writing for the Times for 30 years covering foreign policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation, and the presidency. He has been a member of two teams that won the Pulitzer Prize and has been awarded numerous honors for national security and foreign policy coverage.

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