Garrett M. Graff Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Publication Order of Anthologies

Garrett M. Graff is a historian, a bestselling writer, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Garrett was born in 1981 and grew up in Montpelier, Vermont. He has spent almost two decades of his life covering topics like technology, national security, and politics. Garrett is recognized as being one of the most wide-ranging journalists and historians. He has written books on a variety of topics, won awards, and penned plenty of essays and magazine articles as well as been involved in podcasts and documentaries.

Garrett uses history to show where we have been, where we are, and where we’re going. He is a columnist working for the Washington Post. He also is the director of cyber initiatives at the Aspen Institute and is the host of the history podcast Long Shadow. He is a previous editor of POLITICO Magazine as well as Washingtonian. He has also contributed to CNN and WIRED and has written pieces that have been featured in places such as Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, New York, Foreign Affairs, and Esquire.

He has written multiple books that have hit the bestsellers list on the New York Times. His book Watergate came in as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the subject of history. The book was praised by many, including Douglas Brinkley in the New York Times and in Kirkus Reviews and the Washington Post.

Garrett has written books such as The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11. It was picked as a 2020 Audiobook of the Year. His story UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government’s Search for Alien Life Here– and Out There as well as When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day, which was described by Ron Charles of The Washington Post as ‘absolutely gripping’.

Garrett is a founding director of the cybersecurity and technology program of the Aspen Institute. There he assisted in starting up the Aspen Cybersecurity Group, and he has long been a new media pioneer. He is a founding editor of FishbowlDC on mediabistro.com, a blog that has gone over media and journalist in Washington. He is also a co-founder of the internet strategy consulting firm EchoDitto, Inc.

While at FishbowlDC, he became the first blogger who entered in 2005 to cover a White House press briefing. He is a native of Vermont and attended Harvard University (and graduated). The author has also been a deputy press secretary on the presidential campaign for Howard Dean and was the first webmaster for governor Dean starting in 1997.

Garrett has served as the executive producer of the VICE TV series “While the Rest of Us Die”, which ran for two seasons. It was based on Raven Rock, his book. Graff has also been a consulting producer on “Turning Point”, a Netflix documentary focused on the Cold War.

He has taught at Georgetown University, has taught courses on technology and journalism, has been on the boards for Vermont Public Radio, the Burlington Housing Authority, and the National Conference on Citizenship. He also was the recipient of a doctorate of humane letters from Champlain College.

His commentary and his writing has been featured in publications such as Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, AARP Magazine, 5280, The Wall Street Journal, Columbia Journalism Review, The Week, New York Daily News, Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine, Eater, USA Today, NextCity, and GQ UK.

Garrett has also appeared on CBS This Morning, Face the Nation, The Today Show, CBC, the BBC, Good Morning America, the History Channel, different NPR programs such as “Fresh Air”, “All Things Considered”, and “This American Life”.

He is married to Katherine Frances Birrow. They tied the knot in 2013 in Barnard, Vermont.

Angel Is Airborne: JFK’s Final Flight from Dallas is an early book from Garrett M. Graff. If you think that nonfiction books are fascinating and love learning more about true events in history, check this book out!

While on Air Force One on the date of November 22, 1963, a government came together and a presidency was started. It was a journey of 1,190 miles from the city of Dallas to the city of Washington on November 22, 1963. It was one of the most famous flights of Air Force One to ever occur.

In complete secrecy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson got on the plane. Not many in the world were privy to the information that President Kennedy dead. He took the presidential oath and then had a hundred and thirty-two minutes to get his thoughts together and get a government together as well before officially touching base at Andrews Air Force Base and making his first appearance in front of cameras as the United States’ new leader.

There are a lot of recollections of how that flight went, but there are few reconstructions out there that comprehensively document what unfolded on that plane. Graff makes a compelling account of this flight, based painstakingly on over a dozen of real life accounts from people who were on board.

Graff also draws from over five hundred pages of archive documents, a 2 hour and 22 minute audio recording of the radio traffic of Air Force One on the assassination day with Andrews. It shows that even in the middle of one of the most dramatic transitions of presidents in the history of the United States there were real emotions and things experienced, from envy to courage to bewilderment and anger.

The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House is an early book from Garrett M. Graff. If you enjoy books about politics and how the author thinks ‘flattening of the world’ has changed politics, and its impacts on the 2008 election, read on.

This campaign was to be like none that could remembered, the first in fifty years where a new candidate must be nominated by the Republicans and the Democrats. It will also be the first where technology and globalization decide the outcome.

Graff asks whether the parties will embrace the moment and run the new era’s first campaign or run the last campaign once more. He also argues that globalization makes technology a message and a medium of 2008. Domestic issues like job safety or health care are global issues. The web has also come out as a political tool, which has added new elements to the campaign process. Read this book to get all of the details and learn more!