Dan Baum is the author of “Gun Guys: A Road Trip,” “Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans,” “Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure” and “Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty.” He covered the military, the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina as a staff writer for The New Yorker. He has been a reporter for The Anchorage Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Asian Wall Street Journal and The Wall Street Journal.
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