Andrew Nagorski (born 1947) is an American

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and

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. He worked as a

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and

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for ''

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'' for over thirty years. From 2008 to 2014, he was vice-president and director of public policy for EastWest Institute. His most recent book, ''Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom'', was published in 2022.

Early life and education

Nagorski was born in

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to Polish parents, Zygmunt Witold Nagorski Jr. and Maria Bogdaszewska in 1947. They then emigrated to the United States in 1948. He attended school overseas while his father was in the

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. He earned a BA

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from

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in 1969, and was admitted to

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. He also studied at the

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in Cracow. Prior to joining ''

'', Nagorski taught social studies at

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in Massachusetts.

Career

Nagorski joined ''Newsweek International'' in 1973 as an associate editor, later becoming its assistant managing editor from 1977 to 1978. From 1978 to 1980, Nagorski was the Hong Kong-based Asian regional editor for ''

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'' and then worked as Hong Kong Bureau Chief. From 1990 to 1994, he served as ''Newsweek's'' Warsaw bureau chief, and was ''Newsweek's'' Moscow bureau chief in the early 1980s and again from 1995 to 1996. In 1982, the Soviet government, displeased with his reporting, expelled him from the country. After spending the next two and a half years as Rome bureau chief, he became Bonn bureau chief. As Berlin bureau chief from 1996 to 1999, Nagorski reported on Germany's efforts to overcome the legacy of division, the immigration debate, and German-Jewish relations. Based in Berlin, Nagorski also covered Central Europe, drawing on his experience in the region and his knowledge of Polish, Russian, German and French. In 1988, Nagorski took a one-year leave of absence to serve as a senior associate at the

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think tank in Washington, D.C. From January 2000 to 2008, Nagorski was a senior editor for ''

'' in

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, after his time as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief in various cities. Nagorski worked to establish editorial collaboration between ''Newsweek International'' and its network of foreign-language editions and joint venture partners, including ''Newsweek Russia'', which was launched in June 2004, and ''

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''. From 2008 to April 2014, Nagorski served as Vice-President and Director of Public Policy at the EastWest Institute, where he focused on international relations and policy development. He also continues to write reviews and commentaries for ''Newsweek International''. Nagorski has received three awards from the

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for his international reporting. In 2014, former President of Poland

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presented the "Lech Walesa Media Award" to Nagorski "for dedication to the cause of freedom and writing about Poland's history and culture."

Literary works

Non-fiction

*
Reluctant Farewell: An American Reporter’s Candid Look Inside the Soviet Union
', New Republic/Henry Holt, 1985 *
The Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern Europe
', Simon & Schuster, 1993 *
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
', Simon & Schuster, 2007 *
Hitlerland
American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power'', Simon & Schuster, 2012 *
The Nazi Hunters
', Simon & Schuster, 2016
''1941: The Year Germany Lost the War''
Simon & Schuster, 2019
"Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom"
Simon & Schuster, 2022

Fiction

Nagorski's first novel, '' Last Stop Vienna'', about a young German who joins the early Nazi movement and then confronts Hitler, was published by Simon & Schuster in January 2003.

Personal life

Nagorski resides in

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References

External links

*
WW2DB: Review of Nagorski's The Greatest Battle
* * https://web.archive.org/web/20110822153355/http://www.ewi.info/andrew-nagorski {{DEFAULTSORT:Nagorski, Andrew 1947 births Living people American male journalists American magazine editors Amherst College alumni Writers from Edinburgh Journalists from Edinburgh British people of Polish descent British emigrants to the United States Scottish people of Polish descent