David Aikman (born 1944,
Surrey
, England
), is a
best-selling author, journalist, and foreign policy
consultant.
Aikman graduated from Oxford University’s Worcester College in 1965
and gained a PhD from the University of Washington in Russian and
Chinese history in 1979.
He worked as a journalist for
Time
Magazine from 1971 to 1994, during which he reported on
nearly all the major historical events of the time. He has
interviewed several major world figures, including the likes of
Mother Teresa,
Manuel Noriega,
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
Pham Van Dong,
Boris
Yeltsin and
Billy Graham.
Aikman is
a frequent lecturer at Harvard University
, University of
the Nations, and various other colleges. He now teaches at
Patrick Henry
College
.
Bibliography
- Love China Today (Tyndale House, 1978), Editor and
Co-author
- Pacific Rim: Area of Change, Area of Opportunity
(Little, Brown and Company, 1986)
- Gorbachev: An Intimate Biography (New American
Library, 1988), Co-author
- Massacre in Beijing: China's Struggle for Democracy
(Warner Books, 1989), Co-author
- Berlin: Portrait of a City (Bullfinch Press, 1990),
author of Introduction to photos by Stephane Duroy
- When the Almond Tree Blossoms (Word Publishing,
1993)
- Hope: The Heart's Great Quest (Servant Publications,
September 1995)
- Great Souls: Six Who Changed The Century (Word
Publishing, March 1998; paperback, Lexington Books, 2002)
- Jesus in Beijing (Regnery Publishing, October
2003)
- A Man of Faith: The Spiritual Journey of George W.
Bush (W Publishing Group, April 2004)
- QI (Broadman & Holman Publishers, October
2005)
- The Delusion of Disbelief (Tyndale House Publishers,
April 2008)
See also
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References