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Tom Gjelten

Biography

Tom Gjelten

Tom Gjelten is a veteran journalist and author of SARAJEVO DAILY: A City and Its Newspaper Under Siege and BACARDI AND THE LONG FIGHT FOR CUBA: The Biography of a Cause. Over a 30-year career as a correspondent for NPR News, he has covered wars in Central America, the Middle East, and the former Yugoslavia, as well as major national stories in the United States. His NPR reporting has won him two Overseas Press Club Awards, a George Polk Award, and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. He is a regular panelist on the PBS program "Washington Week," a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Editorial Board at World Affairs Journal.

Tom Gjelten

Books by Tom Gjelten

by Tom Gjelten - History, Nonfiction

In 1950, Fairfax County, Virginia, was 90 percent white, 10 percent African-American, with a little more than 100 families who were “other.” Currently the African-American percentage of the population is about the same, but the Anglo white population is less than 50 percent, and there are families of Asian, African, Middle Eastern and Latin American origin living all over the county. A NATION OF NATIONS follows the lives of a few immigrants to Fairfax County over recent decades as they gradually “Americanize.”