Esther Kaplan is an investigative journalist and investigations editor at ''

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'', and she has previously worked at ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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'', In radio she's worked for

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. Her work has been published in ''Poz'' and ''

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''. She is the author of the book ''With God on Their Side George W. Bush and the Christian Right''.

Life

Esther Kaplan grew up during the 1970s in King's Valley, Oregon. In the late 1980s she lived in

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. She graduated from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

Works

* ''With God on their side : how Christian fundamentalists trampled science, policy, and democracy in George W. Bush's White House''. The New Press, 2004.

References

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