Edward Jay Epstein is an investigative journalist and the author of many books. He was a staff writer for the New Yorker and a columnist for Manhattan, inc. Viking Press published his undergraduate thesis under the title Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth in 1966. His PhD thesis, excerpted in the New Yorker, was published by Random House as News from Nowhere: Television and the News. His latest book is Assume Nothing.