Ron Suskind is the author Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President, a sweeping narrative about the fall of the U.S. economy, the rise of Barack Obama, and the President's harrowing battles to take his control of his White House and earn the confidence of the American people. Mr. Suskind is also the author of the NewYork Times bestsellers The Way of the World, A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, (2008); The One Percent Doctrine, Deep Inside America's Pursuit of its Enemies Since 9/11, (2006); The Price of Loyalty, George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill, (2004); and the critically-acclaimed bestseller, A Hope in the Unseen, An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League. (1998). From 1993 to 2000, he was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal, where he won the Pulitzer Prize. He has written for the New York Times Magazine and Esquire, and is a distinguished visiting scholar at Dartmouth College. He lives with his wife, Cornelia Kennedy Suskind, in Washington, D.C.