A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Lansing Lamont was a national political correspondent for Time magazine’s Washington bureau from 1961 – 1968. During that time, he covered the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, as well as the 1964 and 1968 Republication and Democratic conventions and presidential campaigns. He was deputy chief of Time’s London bureau from 1969 – 1971, chief Canada correspondent from 1971-1973, and United Nations bureau chief and world affairs writer from 1973 – 1975.
Lamont currently lives with his wife in New York, where he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. You Must Remember This is his seventh book.