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Jim Rasenberger

Jim Rasenberger
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Jim Rasenberger

Jim Rasenberger is the author of The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs and High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World’s Greatest Skyline. He has written for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Smithsonian, and The Wilson Quarterly, among other publications. A native of Washington, D.C., he lives in New York City with his wife and sons.

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The Brilliant Disaster will be released on April 10, 2012 in Trade Paperback
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COLUMN: Det. Holmes takes on Kennedy killing
Statesville Record & Landmark, November 17, 2012
...Adams; "The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs" by Jim Rasenberger; and "Act of Treason: The Role of J. Edgar Hoover in the Assassination of President Kennedy" and "Betrayal in Dallas: LBJ, the Pearl...
Reader recommendation: High Steel
Christian Science Monitor, August 29, 2012
...at 12:02 pm EDT Ironworkers are literally the "Cowboys of the Sky," as detailed in Jim Rasenberger's book, High Steel. The book dispels some of the myths about ironworkers (for instance, that Mohawk Indians are naturally unafraid of heights) while giving...