The Best American Magazine Writing 2010

The American Society of Magazine Editors is the principal organization for magazine journalists in the United States. ASME sponsors the National Magazine Awards in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.Jon Meacham is the former editor of Newsweek; he co-anchors Need to Know on PBS. His latest book, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Meacham is also the author of two additional New York Times best-sellers: American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation and Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship.

Introduction, by Jon Meacham
Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt
The Deadly Choices at Memorial, by Sheri Fink
Still Life, by Skip Hollandsworth
Marc Dreier's Crime of Destiny, by Bryan Burrough
The Last Abortion Doctor, by John H. Richardson
The Cost Conundrum, by Atul Guwande
A Death in Texas, by Tom Barry
Vanish, by Evan Ratliff
Out West, by Joe Wilkins
Theocracy and Its Discontents, by Fareed Zakaria
Lead Us Not Into Debt, by Megan McArdle
Bacon: The Other White Heat, by Theodore Gray
In Defense of Tourism, by Peter Jon Lindberg
Excerpts from For and Against Foreskin, by Michael Idov, Christopher Bonanos, and Hanna Rosin
There's a Sucker Born Every Minute, by Tom Carson
War Games, by Steve Erickson
Suburban Ghetto, by Jonathan Dee
Obituary Columns: Danny La Rue, Benson, William Safire, by Ann Wroe
Top Ten State Fair Joys, by Garrison Keillor
The Man Who Never Was, by Mike Sager
Trial by Fire, by David Grann
Raw Water, by Wells Tower
And Yet . . ., by Mitch Albom
National Magazine Awards 2010 Finalists and Winners
National Magazine Awards 2010 Judges
ASME Board of Directors, 2010–2011
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