CLARA BINGHAM, a former Newsweek White House correspondent, is an award-winning journalist and author of four books. Her latest book is The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963- 1973. Bingham’s other books include Class Action: The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law (co-written with Laura Leedy Gansler), adapted into the film North Country, was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and won the AAUW Speaking Out for Justice Award. She is also the author of Women on the Hill and Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul. After witnessing the effects of mountaintop-removal coal mining for a 2005 story, Bingham produced the feature documentary The Last Mountain, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011. She has written for many publications, including Vanity Fair, The Guardian, and The Daily Beast, among others. Bingham lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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