David Rieff

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David Rieff (born September 28, 1952, in Boston) is a nonfiction writer and policy analyst. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism. He has published numerous articles in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, El Pais, The New Republic, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, and other publications.

Rieff is the only child of Susan Sontag. His father, whom Sontag married in her teens and divorced in her 20s, is Philip Rieff, author of Freud: The Mind of A Moralist.

Rieff graduated from Princeton University in 1978, and was a Senior Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux from 1978 to 1989, working with such authors as Joseph Brodsky, Elias Canetti, Carlos Fuentes, Alberto Moravia, Les Murray, Philip Roth, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Marguerite Yourcenar.

He is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School for Social Research, a Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a board member of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch and a board member of the Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute.

Rieff has expressed strong disapproval of the American policies and actions that both informed and followed the invasion of Iraq [1].

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Texas Boots (with Sharon Delano) (Studio/Penguin, 1981)
Going to Miami: Tourists, Exiles and Refugees in the New America (Little, Brown, 1987)
The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami (Simon & Schuster, 1993)
Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World (Simon & Schuster, 1991)
Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West (Simon & Schuster, 1995)
Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (Co-editor, with Roy Gutman) (W. W. Norton, 1999)
A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (Simon & Schuster, 2003)
At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention (Simon & Schuster, 2005)