Michael Isikoff is the co-author with David Corn of the book titled Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump, published on March 13,2018.
12 Facts About Michael Isikoff
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From July 2010 to April 2014, Isikoff was the national investigative correspondent for NBC News.
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Michael Isikoff resigned from NBC, citing the network's move in a direction that left him with "fewer opportunities" for his work.
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Michael Isikoff had previously worked for Newsweek, which he joined as an investigative correspondent in June 1994, and wrote extensively on the US government's War on Terror, the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, campaign finance and congressional ethics abuses, presidential politics and other national issues.
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Michael Isikoff was born to a Jewish family, the son of Gertrude "Trudy" and Morris Michael Isikoff.
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Michael Isikoff graduated from Syosset High School on Long Island in 1970.
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Michael Isikoff was a part of the Newsweek team that won the Overseas Press Club's most prestigious award, the 2001 Ed Cunningham Memorial Award for best magazine reporting from abroad for Newsweeks coverage of the War on Terror.
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Michael Isikoff is the co-author, with journalist David Corn, of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, a 2006 book about the selling of the 2003 invasion of Iraq to the US public and the ensuing Plame affair.
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In 2018, Michael Isikoff claimed that Linda Tripp offered to take the infamous blue dress from Lewinsky's closet and hand it over to him.
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Michael Isikoff allegedly refused, saying he didn't want to take possession of stolen property and did not have access to President Bill Clinton's DNA to test the evidence on the dress anyway.
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In January 2007, Michael Isikoff married former Washington, DC political gossip columnist Mary Ann Akers, who wrote "The Sleuth" for The Washington Post.
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Michael Isikoff was previously married to Lisa Stein, with whom he has a daughter, Willa Michael Isikoff.