National Geographic: Behind America’s Lens on the World

This is the first-ever independent, book-length account of one of America's most powerful and mysterious institutions: the National Geographic Society, which for a century has been America's lens on the world.
"A lucid, authoritative history of the magazine and the National Geographic Society"
-Seattle Post-Intelligencer
" ... This tale of an American family institution is great fun."
-Publishers Weekly

Howard S. Abramson is also the author of Hero in Disgrace: The True Discoverer of the North Pole, Frederick A. Cook. Formerly an editor at The Washington Post, Bloomberg News, and The Journal of Commerce, Abramson is currenly publisher of Transport Topics Publishing Group in Arlington, VA.