Tina Brown’s Must-Reads: Political Change-Makers

Tina Brown, editor of The Daily Beast and Newsweek, tells us what she’s been reading in a feature that Morning Edition likes to call “Word of Mouth.” This month, Brown selects two pieces of writing profiling individuals at the center of political change in their respective countries.

A Penetrating New Profile Of Russia’s Putin

Brown’s first recommendation is The Man Without a Face, a biography of Vladimir Putin, recently re-elected president of Russia. Brown says Putin’s intelligence services targeted the book’s author, Masha Gessen, employing tactics designed to make the journalist feel that she was never safe.