Kurt Andersen

Kurt Andersen is the author of True Believers and the critically acclaimed bestsellers Heyday and Turn of the Century, as well as Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America. He is also host and co-creator of the Peabody Award-winning public radio program Studio 360, editor-at-large for Random House, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and writes for film, television and the stage.

Kurt Andersen’s ’60s Book Bag

Spy Vs. Spy

The writer and Studio 360 host creates a character haunted by her political actions in the late ’60s and early ’70s in his new novel, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400067200/thedaibea-20/" target="_blank">True Believers</a>. He picks his favorite books from the era.

Kurt Andersen | Published Jul 17, 2012

America Hits the Reset Button

The nation’s economic future is not as dire as it seems, Kurt Andersen argues in Reset. The country has been here before—and will survive again.

Kurt Andersen | Published Jul 28, 2009

Requiem for a Tough Guy

A Vietnam vet with a wicked sense of humor till the day he died of cancer last December, my friend Bob Nylen wrote a memoir, just published posthumously, that will blow your mind.

Kurt Andersen | Published Jun 03, 2009