Mark Hertsgaard is an American journalist. His best-known work is On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency (1988), which described the way the Reagan White House "deployed raw power and conventional wisdom to intimidate Washington's television newsrooms".[1]
In the 1990s, Hertsgaard's attention turned to the ecological fate of the Earth. He embarked upon a seven-year global tour to investigate the issue of environmental degradation. The journey spanned four continents, 19 countries and hundreds of interviews.[1] The published result was a wide-ranging book called Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future (1999) ISBN 978-0767900591, which was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and Time magazine.[2]
Hertsgaard's newest book is about climate change adaptation, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, titled Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth (2011) ISBN 9780618826124.[3][4]