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Stephen Tedder Henson was for six years an editor with Whittle Books, a division of Whittle Communications Inc. (50 percent owned by Time Warner Inc.). Whittle Books published business, medical, and general-interest titles. In addition to publishing its own titles, Whittle Books sold reprint rights and produced books in association with other publishers.

Reviews of Whittle Books titles may be found in the archives of major newspapers and magazines such as the following: The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, National Review, The Atlantic, Kirkus Reviews, and Business Week.

In addition to his work with Whittle Books, Mr. Henson has edited titles by Simon & Schuster, Random House, Faber & Faber of Boston, Viking Penguin, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, and W.W. Norton. Below is a partial list of Mr. Henson's book-editing credits, along with synopses and brief author bios and ISBN references (consult the Library of Congress homepage for additional details). Thereafter are additional credits -- both as writer and editor -- for newspapers, magazines, and technical materials.

A Hole in the Market
by Jane Bryant Quinn A Hole In The Market

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ISBN: 1-879736-21-7. A Hole in the Market explores the tactics that businesses can use to handle the demographic phenomenon known as the "baby bust."
Quinn, who is among the nation's leading commentators on personal finance, is a Newsweek and Woman's Day columnist and syndicated newspaper writer and the author of the best-selling books Making the Most of Your Money and Everyone's Money Book.

War and Peace in the Middle East
by Avi Shlaim War and Peace in the

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ISBN: 0-670-85330-5 (Viking Penguin). War and Peace in the Middle East discusses the current political intricacies as well as the history and possible future course of the seemingly inexplicable Middle East.
Shlaim, who is also the author of The Iron Wall and The Politics of Partition, is an Oxford professor of international relations and a commentator on British and American Middle East policy.

The X Factor
by George Plimpton

ISBN: 0-9624745-4-1. The X Factor is an entertaining search for and exploration of that elusive "rare and blessed state" in which "preternatural heights of performance" are possible. According to Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times, this book is "by turns funny, charming, and ridiculous. . . . Where Mr. Plimpton draws upon his X Factor is in his prose style, in his unfailing ability to find the perfectly funny word or phrase."
Plimpton was a special contributor to Sports Illustrated, the cofounder and longtime editor of the literary journal The Paris Review, and the author of The Curious Case of Sidd Finch, Out of My League, Shadow Box, and the bestseller Paper Lion.

The Trouble With Money
by William Greider

ISBN: 0-9624745-0-9. The Trouble With Money argues that economic deregulation can lead to an "unfair, illogical, and doomed" financial system.
Greider, former Rolling Stone magazine national editor, Washington Post editor, and PBS correspondent, is the author of Secrets of the Temple, One World, Ready or Not, and the bestseller Who Will Tell the People.

Adhocracy: The Power to Change
by Robert H. Waterman, Jr. Adhocracy: The Power To

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ISBN: 0-393-03414-3 (W.W. Norton). Adhocracy examines the concept of "systematic innovation" by ad-hoc groups acting outside the bureaucratic establishment that inevitably builds up in any organization.
Waterman, founder of the management consulting firm The Waterman Group, is the author of What America Does Right and The Renewal Factor and co-author of the bestseller In Search of Excellence.

Life After Television
by George Gilder Life After Television cover

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ISBN: 0-393-03385-6 (W.W. Norton). In Life After Television Gilder foresees a "telefuture" in which new technology will shift economic power from mass institutions to individuals.
Gilder, an influential and widely published writer and former Harvard fellow, is the author of The Visible Man, Spirit of Enterprise, Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology, Telecosm, and the bestseller Wealth and Poverty. Life After Television, also a bestseller, is an "exciting, visionary glimpse of the future" (Publishers Weekly) and a "galvanic, at times even intoxicating" read (The Wall Street Journal).

The Book Wars
by James Atlas Battle of the Books cover

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ISBN: 0-393-03413-5 (W.W. Norton). The Book Wars discusses the debate over curriculum content. Should schools teach from the "Great Books," or should they continue the "opening of the curriculum"? This book, reprinted by W.W. Norton under the title Battle of the Books, was a bestseller.
Atlas, also the author of Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet (nominated for a National Book Award), The Great Pretender, and Bellow: A Biography, is a literary journalist, critic, and editor of Viking Penguin's Penguin Lives biography series. Atlas has worked for publications such as Time, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker.
"I got the kind of great, professional editing and meticulous line editing you rarely get with trade editors these days." -- James Atlas as quoted in The New York Times, 14 March 1991, concerning The Book Wars.

A Short History of Financial Euphoria
by John Kenneth Galbraith A Short History of

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ISBN: 0-670-85028-4 (Viking Penguin). In A Short History of Financial Euphoria Galbraith recounts the "Tulipomania" and South Sea Bubble phenomena to warn investors of "the mass psychology of the speculative mood" that can lead to financial ruin.
Galbraith, the author of The Affluent Society and The Good Society: The Humane Agenda, is a Harvard professor and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.

Predicting Russia's Future
by Richard Lourie

ISBN: 0-9624745-9-2. Predicting Russia's Future focuses on seven key figures and three major invasions in Russian history to speculate about the country "that must change but cannot."
Lourie is a Sovietologist, a translator of works from Russian, a novelist, and a frequent contributor to The New York Times and other publications.

Nuclear Renewal
by Richard Rhodes

ISBN: 0-670-85207-4 (Viking Penguin). Nuclear Renewal, which Publishers Weekly cited as a book "of unusual interest and merit," argues that Americans have foolishly forsaken nuclear power as a reliable energy source.
Rhodes is a best-selling author and winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Making of the Atomic Bomb. His book Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Getting the Job Done
by Kenneth Adelman

ISBN: 1-879736-06-3. Getting the Job Done is a collection of interviews -- with Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writer Tom Wolfe, Washington Post chairman Katharine Graham, and others -- focusing on management methods and work habits.
Adelman, who is with the Institute for Contemporary Studies, is a national editor of The Washingtonian. He is co-author, with Norman Augustine, of Shakespeare in Charge.

The Disuniting of America
by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. The Disuniting of America

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ISBN: 0-393-03380-5 (W.W. Norton). The Disuniting of America, a New York Times bestseller, examines the consequences of forsaking assimilation into the mainstream in favor of "ethnic awareness." This book, says The Wall Street Journal, is "one of the most devastating and articulate attacks on multiculturalism yet to appear."
Schlesinger, a former Harvard professor and advisor to President Kennedy, is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Among his other books are A Thousand Days, The Crisis of Confidence, The Imperial Presidency, The Opening of the American Mind, A Life in the Twentieth Century, The Politics of Upheaval, The Politics of Hope, and Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom.

Pacific Rift
by Michael Lewis

ISBN: 0-393-03105-5 (W.W. Norton). Pacific Rift discusses U.S.-Japan relations through entertaining looks at an American working in Japan and a Japanese working in America.
Lewis, a graduate of Princeton and the London School of Economics and a regular contributor to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, is the author of the bestsellers The Money Culture, Liar's Poker, and The New New Thing.

newspaper credits

Many pieces, most on business topics, ranging from sidebars to feature articles requiring extensive research, investigative reporting, and interviews with corporate executives.

magazine credits (editorial)

Vent Magazine (contributing editor)
Travel Life
Tennessee Illustrated
Student Traveler
Special Report: Fiction

Among the writers on whose short magazine pieces Mr. Henson has worked are the following: Kaye Gibbons, Russell Banks, Barbara Kingsolver, Madison Smartt Bell, Lee Smith, Rick Bass, Francine Prose, and David Madden.

magazine credits (writing)

"The Voice From Out of Darkness" (under the title "Stephen Henson to Q")
The Quarterly: The Magazine of New American Writing, from Vintage Books, a division of Random House. ISBN: 0-394-75718-1.
"The How Do You Say Kind Words"
The Quarterly: The Magazine of New American Writing, from Vintage Books, a division of Random House. ISBN: 0-679-72172-X.
The Quarterly

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technical credits

Hartbright Editorial Services has been awarded a Certificate of Commendation for Technical Excellence for its editorial work. Our credits include documents such as remedial investigation, feasibility study, and treatability study reports under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act for publication by government agencies, government contractors, and private companies including

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a Fortune 500 company and the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States
Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc.
CDM Federal Programs Corporation, a division of Camp Dresser and McKee
Brown & Root Environmental, a division of Halliburton NUS Corporation (now Tetra Tech NUS)
the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence
the U.S. Department of Energy

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A Hole in the Market by Jane Bryant Quinn
	ISBN: 1-879736-21-7. A Hole in the Market explores the tactics that businesses can use to handle the demographic phenomenon known as the "baby bust." Quinn, who is among the nation's leading commentators on personal finance, is a Newsweek and Woman's Day columnist and syndicated newspaper writer and the author of the best-selling books Making the Most of Your Money and Everyone's Money Book.

War and Peace in the Middle East by Avi Shlaim
	ISBN: 0-670-85330-5 (Viking Penguin). War and Peace in the Middle East discusses the current political intricacies as well as the history and possible future course of the seemingly inexplicable Middle East. Shlaim, who is also the author of The Iron Wall and The Politics of Partition, is an Oxford professor of international relations and a commentator on British and American Middle East policy.

The X Factor by George Plimpton
	ISBN: 0-9624745-4-1. The X Factor is an entertaining search for and exploration of that elusive "rare and blessed state" in which "preternatural heights of performance" are possible. According to Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times, this book is "by turns funny, charming, and ridiculous. . . . Where Mr. Plimpton draws upon his X Factor is in his prose style, in his unfailing ability to find the perfectly funny word or phrase." Plimpton was a special contributor to Sports Illustrated, the cofounder and longtime editor of the literary journal The Paris Review, and the author of The Curious Case of Sidd Finch, Out of My League, Shadow Box, and the bestseller Paper Lion.

The Trouble With Money by William Greider
	ISBN: 0-9624745-0-9. The Trouble With Money argues that economic deregulation can lead to an "unfair, illogical, and doomed" financial system. Greider, former Rolling Stone magazine national editor, Washington Post editor, and PBS correspondent, is the author of Secrets of the Temple, One World, Ready or Not, and the bestseller Who Will Tell the People.

Adhocracy: The Power to Change by Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
	ISBN: 0-393-03414-3 (W.W. Norton). Adhocracy examines the concept of "systematic innovation" by ad-hoc groups acting outside the bureaucratic establishment that inevitably builds up in any organization. Waterman, founder of the management consulting firm The Waterman Group, is the author of What America Does Right and The Renewal Factor and co-author of the bestseller In Search of Excellence.

Life After Television by George Gilder
	ISBN: 0-393-03385-6 (W.W. Norton). In Life After Television Gilder foresees a "telefuture" in which new technology will shift economic power from mass institutions to individuals. Gilder, an influential and widely published writer and former Harvard fellow, is the author of The Visible Man, Spirit of Enterprise, Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology, Telecosm, and the bestseller Wealth and Poverty. Life After Television, also a bestseller, is an "exciting, visionary glimpse of the future" (Publishers Weekly) and a "galvanic, at times even intoxicating" read (The Wall Street Journal).

The Book Wars by James Atlas
	ISBN: 0-393-03413-5 (W.W. Norton). The Book Wars discusses the debate over curriculum content. Should schools teach from the "Great Books," or should they continue the "opening of the curriculum"? This book, reprinted by W.W. Norton under the title Battle of the Books, was a bestseller. Atlas, also the author of Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet (nominated for a National Book Award), The Great Pretender, and Bellow: A Biography, is a literary journalist, critic, and editor of Viking Penguin's Penguin Lives biography series. Atlas has worked for publications such as Time, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. "I got the kind of great, professional editing and meticulous line editing you rarely get with trade editors these days." -- James Atlas as quoted in The New York Times, 14 March 1991, concerning The Book Wars.

A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith
	ISBN: 0-670-85028-4 (Viking Penguin). In A Short History of Financial Euphoria Galbraith recounts the "Tulipomania" and South Sea Bubble phenomena to warn investors of "the mass psychology of the speculative mood" that can lead to financial ruin. Galbraith, the author of The Affluent Society and The Good Society: The Humane Agenda, is a Harvard professor and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.

Predicting Russia's Future by Richard Lourie
	ISBN: 0-9624745-9-2. Predicting Russia's Future focuses on seven key figures and three major invasions in Russian history to speculate about the country "that must change but cannot." Lourie is a Sovietologist, a translator of works from Russian, a novelist, and a frequent contributor to The New York Times and other publications.

Nuclear Renewal by Richard Rhodes
	ISBN: 0-670-85207-4 (Viking Penguin). Nuclear Renewal, which Publishers Weekly cited as a book "of unusual interest and merit," argues that Americans have foolishly forsaken nuclear power as a reliable energy source. Rhodes is a best-selling author and winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Making of the Atomic Bomb. His book Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Getting the Job Done by Kenneth Adelman
	ISBN: 1-879736-06-3. Getting the Job Done is a collection of interviews -- with Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writer Tom Wolfe, Washington Post chairman Katharine Graham, and others -- focusing on management methods and work habits. Adelman, who is with the Institute for Contemporary Studies, is a national editor of The Washingtonian. He is co-author, with Norman Augustine, of Shakespeare in Charge.

The Disuniting of America by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
	ISBN: 0-393-03380-5 (W.W. Norton). The Disuniting of America, a New York Times bestseller, examines the consequences of forsaking assimilation into the mainstream in favor of "ethnic awareness." This book, says The Wall Street Journal, is "one of the most devastating and articulate attacks on multiculturalism yet to appear." Schlesinger, a former Harvard professor and advisor to President Kennedy, is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Among his other books are A Thousand Days, The Crisis of Confidence, The Imperial Presidency, The Opening of the American Mind, A Life in the Twentieth Century, The Politics of Upheaval, The Politics of Hope, and Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom.

Pacific Rift by Michael Lewis
	ISBN: 0-393-03105-5 (W.W. Norton). Pacific Rift discusses U.S.-Japan relations through entertaining looks at an American working in Japan and a Japanese working in America. Lewis, a graduate of Princeton and the London School of Economics and a regular contributor to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, is the author of the bestsellers The Money Culture, Liar's Poker, and The New New Thing.

Vent Magazine (contributing editor) Travel Life Tennessee Illustrated Student Traveler Special Report: Fiction
Among the writers on whose short magazine pieces Mr. Henson has worked are the following: Kaye Gibbons, Russell Banks, Barbara Kingsolver, Madison Smartt Bell, Lee Smith, Rick Bass, Francine Prose, and David Madden.