Goodman, David 1959–

PERSONAL:

Born 1959; married; children: two.

ADDRESSES:

Home—VT.

CAREER:

Writer and journalist. Mother Jones magazine, contributing writer. Has appeared on national radio and television shows, including PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Pacifica Radio, Democracy Now!, NPR's Fresh Air, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, and CNN.

WRITINGS:

Classic Backcountry Skiing: A Guide to the Best Ski Tours in New England, Appalachian Mountain Club Books (Boston, MA), 1989.

Backcountry Skiing Adventures: Classic Ski and Snowboard Tours in Maine and New Hampshire, Appalachian Mountain Club Books (Boston, MA), 1999.

Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa, photographs by Paul Weinberg, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1999.

Backcountry Skiing Adventures: Classic Skiing and Snowboarding Tours in Vermont and New York, Appalachian Mountain Club Books (Boston, MA), 2000.

(With sister, Amy Goodman) The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them, Hyperion (New York, NY), 2004.

(With Amy Goodman) Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back, Hyperion (New York, NY), 2006.

Contributor to books, including In the Name of Democracy, Metropolitan, 2005. Contributor to periodicals, including the Washington Post, Outside, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, and the Nation.

SIDELIGHTS:

Journalist David Goodman has written backcountry skiing and travel books and is also the author of two books with his sister, Amy Goodman, a journalist and host of the National Public Radio program Democracy Now! In their first book together, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them, David and Amy Goodman provide no-holds-barred reporting about politics and government as they address an array of topics, including media responsibility, human rights, and government accountability issues. The authors also discuss such current events as massacres in East Timor, the Iraq War, and the state of journalism today in covering human rights abuses. Kliatt contributor Nola Theiss noted that the authors provide "many firsthand accounts of situations where journalists were forbidden to report what they have actually seen."

In their next book together, Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back, the Goodmans focus on the government administration of George W. Bush and what they see as the administration's Orwellian approach to providing and controlling information. In addition, they profile antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and a British ambassador who released information on human rights abuses. "They also remind us of the unseemly ties between Republican Party supporters and Pentagon contracts in Iraq," wrote a contributor to Publishers Weekly. PopMatters Web site contributor Joe Silva commented: "Reading like an Administration rap sheet and a stern indictment of the media that let them down, Static is a look at the details beneath the headline horrors that most disinterested Americans never get to."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

California Bookwatch, November, 2006, review of Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back.

Guild Practitioner, spring, 2005, David Gespass, review of The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers and the Media That Love Them.

Kliatt, September, 2005, Nola Theiss, review of The Exception to the Rulers, p. 37.

Parks & Recreation, January, 1990, review of Classic Backcountry Skiing: A Guide to the Best Ski Tours in New England, p. 87.

Publishers Weekly, June 12, 2006, review of Static, p. 41.

ONLINE

Democracy Now,http://tour.democracynow.org/ (October 9, 2007), brief profile of author.

Hyperion,http://www.hyperionbooks.com/ (October 9, 2007), brief profile of author.

Next Left, http://www.thenextleft.com/ (October 9, 2007), review of Static.

PopMatters,http://www.popmatters.com/ (November 21, 2006), Joe Silva, review of Static.