Sam Tanenhaus is the editor of both The New York Times Book Review and the Week in Review section of the Times. From 1999 to 2004 he was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he wrote often on politics.
His work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications. Tanenhaus’s previous book, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Books in order of publication:
Literature Unbound: A Guide for the Common Reader – 1984
Louis Armstrong: Musician – 1988
Old Greenwich Village: An Architectural Portrait – 1995
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography – 1997
The Death of Conservatism – 2009
Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America – 2025
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