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This collection of captivating profiles from Vanity Fair writer Marie Brenner spans her award-winning career and features larger-than-life figures such as Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, Malala Yousafzai, and Richard Jewell—the security guard whose dramatic heroism at the bombing of the 1996 Olympics produced him the FBI’s prime suspect.

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Previously published as AN EXCLUSIVE War, Marie Brenner’s Richard Jewell tells a gripping true story of heroism and injustice. In the first morning hours of July 27, 1996, three pipe bombs exploded at the summertime Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, eliminating one person and injuring 111 others. Hundreds even more potential casualties had been avoided by the vigilance and quick actions of security safeguard Richard Jewell, who uncovered the bombs and started evacuating the region. But no great deed goes unpunished.

In need of a business lead, investigators and journalists pursued Jewell as a potential suspect in the event, painting him seeing that an obvious match for the infamous “lone bomber” profile. Accused of being a terrorist and a failed law enforcement official who craved general public identification for his fake heroics, he saw his popularity smeared across headlines and broadcasts nationwide. After a months-long analysis found no evidence against him, the united states Attorney finally cleared Jewell’s name. However Jewell wouldn’t normally be fully exonerated in the eyes of the public until the real bomber confessed in 2005, simply two years before Jewell’s early death at age forty-four.

In Richard Jewell, veteran journalist Marie Brenner brilliantly chronicles Jewell’s ordeal to share the story of a typical man whose life was shattered with a fake narrative. This collection also includes Brenner’s classic encounters with Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, Malala Yousafzai, Marie Colvin, among others.