GROSS: What was happening in your life when you decided to write 'War On Peace'?įARROW: You know, this project gestated for a long time, and then with the advent of the Trump administration, the exact trend line I was talking about, decimating American diplomacy, reached this new nadir. Ronan Farrow, welcome to FRESH AIR, and congratulations on this remarkable year of reporting that you've had. By the age of 20, he was working for Richard Holbrooke in the Obama State Department. He started college at the age of 11 and went to Yale Law School at 16. Many of them had disabilities and were adopted from other countries. He's the son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen. Farrow also has just published a new book called 'War On Peace: The End Of Diplomacy And The Decline Of American Influence.'įarrow has a remarkable personal story, too.

Schneiderman resigned within three hours of the story's publication. Also this month, Farrow, along with The New Yorker's Jane Mayer, broke the story of four women who accused New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of nonconsensual physical violence. This month, Farrow broke a story about Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and his suspicious financial activity. Farrow reported on how the same Israeli company that helped Weinstein also collected information on Obama administration officials who worked on the Iran nuclear agreement looking for ways to discredit them. In another article, he reported on how Weinstein used an Israeli private intelligence firm to compile dossiers and track women and journalists to try to suppress or discredit the allegations. He won a Pulitzer Prize last month, shared with The New York Times, for his articles in The New Yorker about allegations that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted actresses.

My guest, Ronan Farrow, has had a remarkable year of reporting.

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