Jack Lessenberry is a veteran reporter with Michigan Radio and Detroit's NPR affiliate. He has won the George Polk Award, the National Headliner Award, two Emmy Awards, and eight Michigan Associated Press awards. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Esquire, GQ, The Washington Post Magazine, and other publications. He is the author of several books about Michigan politics
We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body.Jack Lessenberry
Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want.Jack Lessenberry
