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Nina Burleigh studied at the University of Chicago in France and got a master’s degree. Nina was a Dora Maar Fellow in the arts in Menerbes, France, in 2014.
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Nina studied at MacMurray College and graduated from it with a bachelor’s degree.
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When she graduated college, Nina didn’t really know what she was going to do, and a professor told her about this program at the University of Illinois - Springfield where Nina could get an internship covering the State House in the State House press room with one of the media outlets. Nina got an internship with the Associated Press and started covering the state legislature and really learned everything she needed to know about how bureaucracies work, how courts work. That education was crucial, and it’s applicable everywhere.
Morning Coworking 145, rue de Courcelles 75017 Paris, France
Nina Burleigh studied at the University of Chicago in France and got a master’s degree. Nina was a Dora Maar Fellow in the arts in Menerbes, France, in 2014.
When she graduated college, Nina didn’t really know what she was going to do, and a professor told her about this program at the University of Illinois - Springfield where Nina could get an internship covering the State House in the State House press room with one of the media outlets. Nina got an internship with the Associated Press and started covering the state legislature and really learned everything she needed to know about how bureaucracies work, how courts work. That education was crucial, and it’s applicable everywhere.
A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
(In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, a...)
In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, newsman Ben Bradlee, and CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton. But the only suspect in her murder was acquitted, and today her life and death are still a source of intense speculation, as Nina Burleigh reveals in her widely praised book, the first to examine this haunting story.
Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
(Two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentri...)
Two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. But in 1798, more than 150 French engineers, artists, doctors, and scientists; even a poet and a musicologist; traveled to the Nile Valley under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte and his invading army. Hazarding hunger, hardship, uncertainty, and disease, Napoleon's "savants" risked their lives in pursuit of discovery. The first large-scale interaction between Europeans and Muslims in the modern era, the audacious expedition was both a triumph and a disaster, resulting in finds of immense historical and scientific importance (including the ruins of the colossal pyramids and the Rosetta Stone) and in countless tragic deaths through plague, privation, madness, or violence.
Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land
(In 2002, an ancient limestone box called the James Ossuar...)
In 2002, an ancient limestone box called the James Ossuary was trumpeted on the world's front pages as the first material evidence of the existence of Jesus Christ. Today it is exhibit number one in a forgery trial involving millions of dollars worth of high-end, Biblical era relics, some of which literally re-wrote Near Eastern history and which could lead to the incarceration of some very wealthy men and embarrass major international institutions, including the British Museum and Sotheby's.
Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump's Women
(New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journ...)
New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist, Nina Burleigh, explores Donald Trump’s attitudes toward women by providing in-depth analysis and background on the women who have had the most profound influence on his life - the mother and grandmother who raised him, the wives who lived with him, and the daughter who is poised to inherit it all.
Nina Burleigh is an award-winning American author, journalist and feminist cultural critic. She is also an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University.
Background
Nina D. Burleigh was born in 1960, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She was born to the family of professors, Nina D. Burleigh's father is author Robert Burleigh. Burleigh's family moved to the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco when she was seven. After a few months in San Francisco, they moved to Baghdad to live with Burleigh's maternal grandmother. Six months later the family moved to an Amish area of Michigan. They always celebrated Christmas with Santa and a tree, Burleigh stated that Nina Burleigh's family had rejected institutional religion by the time she grew up in the 1970s.
Education
Nina Burleigh was educated in the Midwest, has been based in Washington, D.C., New York, and Paris. Nina studied at MacMurray College and graduated from it with a bachelor’s degree. When she graduated from college, Nina didn’t really know what she was going to do, and a professor told her about the program at the University of Illinois - Springfield where Nina could get an internship covering the State House in the State House press room with one of the media outlets. Nina got an internship with the Associated Press and started covering the state legislature and really learned everything she needed to know about how bureaucracies work, how courts work. That education was crucial, and it’s applicable everywhere.
Nina Burleigh studied at the University of Chicago in France and got a master’s degree.
Nina Burleigh has traveled and reported extensively in the Middle East and lived in Italy and France. Burleigh got her start covering the Illinois Statehouse in Springfield, where the governorship often included a fitting for the prison stripes. She has reported from almost every state in the Continental U.S., written hundreds of works of journalism, essays and book reviews, on a wide array of topics including culture, politics, gender issues, science, and the environment. Two of her magazine articles were made into dramatic productions. In the 2000s Nina Burleigh was a staff writer at People magazine in New York, covering human interest stories nationally. She was an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University, wrote "The Bombshell" column for the New York Observer, and was a contributing editor to Elle. Nina Burleigh is an occasional blogger at The Huffington Post. She has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers, including Time magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker.
Many of Nina Burleigh’s books explore the tension between belief and science, religion and rationality in post-Enlightenment life, including 1830s American politics, among post-revolutionary French scientists in Egypt, Cold War era CIA conspiracy theories, fake Biblical archaeology in Jerusalem today, and the role of faith versus science in an Italian courtroom. Two of her books examine the relationship between art, nature, history, and science. In “Mirage” Nina Burleigh told the story of the scientists and artists behind the first great study of modern Islam and ancient Egypt, Description de l'Egypte, a landmark work of art and publishing produced by the scientists who went to Egypt with Napoleon in 1800. Her book Unholy Business is a Maltese Falcon style crime caper about a gang of forgers accused of applying new technology to alter and sell archaeological relics.
Nina Burleigh has covered stories on six continents. She has published works about the Arctic and the Antarctic, the Amazon, where she wrote an essay about women, nature, and the human culture along the Amazon River in Peru and ayahuasca culture in Iquitos, posh Lagos, racism and rhino poaching in South Africa. Nina Burleigh has written cover stories for Newsweek on Trump and Women, Trump as a tool of the New York billionaires, Trump and Evangelicals, Trump and the Law, Facebook and political big data mining, the metoo movement, the melting of Antarctica, sea-level rise in Florida, asteroid defense schemes and other current events.
Nina Burleigh was a writer in residence at the Siena Art Institute in 2013 attached to the Above/Below Ground project with Mark Dion and Amy Yoes, including a symposium on the Art and Science of The Expedition. In Menerbes, France, Nina Burleigh worked on a novel "Mirage". In January 2015 Nina Burleigh became the National Politics Correspondent for Newsweek.
Nina Burleigh's writing has appeared in numerous publications including Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Time, New York, The New York Times, Slate and Bustle. She has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, The Today Show, 48 Hours, MSNBC, CNN and C-Span, on NPR and numerous radio programs.
Nina Burleigh wrote an article for the magazine Mirabella in which Nina Burleigh told Howard Kurtz, Washington Post's media columnist, that she would perform a sexual act on President Clinton just to thank him for keeping abortion legal. As a columnist, Arianna Huffington wrote in an online article, that statement was called "politically incorrect."
Perhaps Burleigh’s heinous crime was that she blew the whistle on the fact that if you share the president’s ideology, and resonate his sex appeal…you are pre-disposed to do nice things for him…even if it breaks the feminist canon of respect for women, especially in the workplace.
Quotations:
“I believe my famous quote exposed the people in my business who take themselves way too seriously. The media were obsessed (inappropriately in my view) with the president’s sex life, and I thought it was time for someone to provide a quote that highlighted the cartoonish aspect of what was underway. I am still trying to digest the fact that we live in such a literal society that even some of my esteemed peers missed the point.”
Membership
Explorers Club
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United States
Personality
Nina Burleigh is very tender and loving. She loves her kids so much. Nina Burleigh is very intelligent and smart.
Interests
kids, kindle, reading, bicycle, Italian food.
Politicians
President Clinton
Connections
In 1999 Nina Burleigh married Erik Freeland. He is a freelance photojournalist. They and their two children and live in New York City.