Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with award-winning writer, journalist and filmmaker Steven Beschloss, exploring the themes of his work and America's fear of the future.
My professional bonafides include journalistic contributions to dozens of media outlets—The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, Smithsonian and The Economist Intelligence Unit, among many others. I have been based in New York and Los Angeles and Pittsburgh and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as London, Helsinki and Moscow. I co-authored the book Adrift, which sought to depict the troubles facing the US since WWII and how to fix them, and authored The Gunman and His Mother, to capture Lee Harvey Oswald’s troubled family life and explain the downward spiral that led him to Dealey Plaza in Dallas. I also spent a decade focused on filmmaking, writing and producing fiction and nonfiction films for European television and the US. In all of this, including recent years working at a university teaching and producing media projects in multiple forms, I have sought to make sense of a world that too often defies logic and reason.