Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of thirteen books. She is also co-host of “Left, Right & Center,” public radio’s popular political roundtable program, and she is a frequent guest on talk and news shows. In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that has quickly become one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet.

In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people. In 2009, Huffington was named as number 12 in Forbes' first ever list of the Most Influential Women In Media. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Catmbridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union.

Arianna Huffington rose to national prominence during her husband's unsuccessful Senate bid in 1994. She became known as a reliable supporter of conservative causes such as Newt Gingrich's "Republican Revolution" and Bob Dole's 1996 candidacy for president. Huffington's politics began to shift back toward the left in the late 1990s. During the Yugoslav Wars, Huffington opposed United States intervention in the crisis.[10] In 2000, she instigated the 'Shadow Conventions', which appeared at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia and the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.

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• Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream (2010)
• Right is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe (2008)
• On Becoming Fearless...In Love, Work, and Life (2007)
• Fanatics & Fools (2004)
• Pigs at the Trough (2003)
• How to Overthrow the Government (2000)
• Greetings from the Lincoln Bedroom (1998)
• Picasso: Creator and Destroyer (1996)
• The Fourth Instinct (1994)
• Maria Callas: The Woman Be
• The Gods of Greece (1993)
• hind the Legend (1993)