John Gerassi (Paris, 1931 ) studied at Columbia University . He has worked as a journalist and editor of Time and , later, Newsweek . He has been a correspondent for The New York Times. He earned his doctorate at the London School of Economics. He has taught at John Kennedy Freedom School in Berlin, at the University of California and other schools. His publications include The great fear in Latin America and Jean -Paul Sartre : The hated conscience of his century.