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Dr. John Maxwell Hamilton, a long-time journalist, author, and public servant, is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor in Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Mass Communication and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. As a journalist, Hamilton reported for the Milwaukee Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and ABC radio. He was a longtime commentator for MarketPlace, broadcast nationally by Public Radio International. In government, Hamilton oversaw nuclear non-proliferation issues for the House Foreign Affairs Committee, served in the State Department during the Carter administration as an advisor to the head of the US foreign aid program in Asia, and managed a World Bank program to educate Americans about economic development. Hamilton’s most recent book is Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Newsgathering Abroad (2009).