Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (www.goldhagen.com) is the author of the just published Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, which is about reconceptualizing, understanding, and finally stopping genocide. Judged as “intensely researched,” “convincing,” and “wholly original” by Kirkus (starred), and “magisterial” by the New York Times, Worse Than War is also the basis for a major PBS documentary (airing on April 14, 2010), which is the first documentary treatment of the phenomenon of genocide itself.
Goldhagen is also the author of the #1 international bestseller Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, which the New York Times acclaimed as “masterly…one of those rare new works that merit the appellation landmark” and which may have generated as much international discussion as any book in our time. Goldhagen, together with the eponymous international debate, the “Goldhagen Debate” about the perpetrators of the Holocaust has been the subject of dozens of scholarly and popular books, in addition to innumerable media profiles and reports.

Born in 1959, Goldhagen received a B.A. (summa cum laude), M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Until deciding to devote himself full time to writing and speaking, he was a professor in Harvard University’s Government and Social Studies departments.