About the Author

Jack Newfield is a veteran New York reporter. He has written for the Village Voice, New York Daily News, and the New York Post. He is a fellow at the Nation Institute and the author of several books including The Life and Crimes of Don King, Somebody's Got to Tell It, and The Full Rudy.

Mark Jacobson, the author of the novels Gojiro and Everyone and No One, and the travelogue 12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time, has been a contributing editor to New York magazine, Rolling Stone, and Natural History, staff writer at the Village Voice, and columnist for Esquire. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.