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Steve Coll is a writer for The New Yorker and author of the Pulitzer Prize- winning Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. He is president of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington, D.C. Previously he served, for more than twenty years, as a reporter, foreign correspondent, and ultimately as managing editor of The Washington Post. He is also the author of On the Grand Trunk Road, The Deal of the Century, and The Taking of Getty Oil. Coll received a 1990 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism and the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for outstanding international print reporting and the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best magazine reporting from abroad. Ghost Wars, published in 2004, received the Pulitzer for general nonfiction and the Arthur Ross award for the best book on international affairs.
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The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story

You can’t beat a good story. Luckily, humans are great at storytelling, and the best fiction podcasts are all the proof that the modern listener requires. Get the popcorn ready; it’s storytime.

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    • Directorate S

    • The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
    • Written by: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 28 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2018-02-06
    • Language: English
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    • The Achilles Trap

    • Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
    • Written by: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2024-02-27
    • Language: English
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    • Ghost Wars

    • The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
    • Written by: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 26 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2011-10-27
    • Language: English
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    • The Bin Ladens

    • An Arabian Family in the American Century
    • Written by: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Erik Singer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2009-01-07
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    • The Taking of Getty Oil

    • The Full Story of the Most Spectacular - and Catastrophic - Takeover of All
    • Written by: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Steven Cooper
    • Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2014-06-10
    • Language: English
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