“The Obamians”

James Mann
Foreign Policy Institute Author-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Washington, D.C., U.S.


James Mann is former Washington correspondent, Beijing bureau chief and columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He also worked for The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the New Haven Journal-Courier. He was senior writer-in-residence at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He is winner of the Edward Weintal Prize and the Edwin Hood Award for reporting on American foreign policy as well as other journalism awards. As a book author, he focuses particularly on U.S. foreign policy and U.S.-China relations. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and holds a B.A.in sociology, Harvard University

Publications: The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power (2012); The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War (2009); The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression (2007); Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet (2004); About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship With China, From Nixon to Clinton (1999); Beijing Jeep (1989); "Congress and Taiwan" in Making China Policy (2001); numerous articles in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic and The Washington Post


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