Vanessa M. Gezari

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About The Author

Vanessa M. Gezari holds the James Madison Visiting Professorship at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She has written for The Washington Post, The New Republic, Slate, and others. She lives in New York.

Books by Vanessa M. Gezari

The Tender Soldier

A True Story of War and Sacrifice

By Vanessa M. Gezari
A “sharp-eyed look at the complexities of war” (Parade), that explores the inner workings of the Human Terrain System, a Pentagon program that sends civilian social scientists into war zones to help soldiers understand local culture.
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