David A. Vise (born June 16, 1960), is a journalist and author. He is a Senior Advisor to New Mountain Capital, a New York-based investment firm, and Executive Director of Modern States “Freshman Year for Free,” a philanthropy whose goal is to make college more accessible and affordable. He won a Pulitzer Prize and the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers in 1990 while working as a business reporter for ''

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''. He has authored or co-authored four books, including ''The Bureau and the Mole'' (2002), about FBI agent and convicted spy

Robert Hanssen Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is an American former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) double agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was described ...

, and '' The Google Story'' (2005), a national bestseller published in more than two dozen languages. Vise received an

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from

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. He holds an honorary Doctorate of Literary Letters from Cumberland University and studied at the London School of Economics. Wharton named him to a list of 125 influential alumni on its 125th anniversary. In 2009, Vise received The Joseph Wharton Award for career achievement and community service. A past president of

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, Vise is a board member of the

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, where he focuses on

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. Vise was a member of the first WUPJ delegation to meet with the

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Personal life

Vise, a first-generation American whose parents Harry and Doris Vise escaped Nazi Germany, is married to Lori Vise, a consultant wit
The College Consulting Collaborative
who focuses on college planning for students with learning differences.

Bibliography of publications

* Vise, David A., and Mark Malseed. '' The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time''. Paperback ed. Dell Pub., 2005. * Vise, David A. ''The Bureau and the Mole: the Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History''. 1st ed. Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2002. * Vise, David A., and Gary Williams. ''Sweet Redemption: How Gary Williams and Maryland Beat Death and Despair to Win the NCAA Basketball Championship''. Hardcover ed. Sports Pub., L.L.C., 2002. * Vise, David A., and Steve Coll. ''Eagle on the Street: Based on the Pulitzer-Prize Winning Account of the SEC's battle with Wall Street''. Paperback ed. Scribner, 1998.

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* * * * * American male journalists Living people Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism winners Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni The Washington Post people 1960 births People from Nashville, Tennessee 20th-century American journalists Gerald Loeb Award winners for Large Newspapers {{US-journalist-1960s-stub