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Scott Stossel

Biography

Scott Stossel

Scott Stossel is the editor of The Atlantic and the author of SARGE: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver. His articles and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. He lives with his family in Washington, D.C.

Scott Stossel

Books by Scott Stossel

written by Scott Stossel, read by Michael Goldstrom - Nonfiction

Drawing on his own long-standing battle with anxiety, Scott Stossel presents an astonishing history of the efforts to understand the condition from medical, cultural, philosophical and experiential perspectives. He ranges from the earliest medical reports of Galen and Hippocrates, through later observations by Robert Burton and Søren Kierkegaard, to the investigations by great 19th-century scientists as they began to explore its sources and causes, to the latest research by neuroscientists and geneticists.

by Scott Stossel - Nonfiction

Drawing on his own long-standing battle with anxiety, Scott Stossel presents an astonishing history of the efforts to understand the condition from medical, cultural, philosophical and experiential perspectives. He ranges from the earliest medical reports of Galen and Hippocrates, through later observations by Robert Burton and Søren Kierkegaard, to the investigations by great 19th-century scientists as they began to explore its sources and causes, to the latest research by neuroscientists and geneticists.