Paul Starobin

Paul Starobin is the author of Madness Rules the Hour: Charleston, 1860 and the Mania for War , praised by the New York Times as a "fast-paced, engagingly written account" of the hysteria that descended on Charleston, South Carolina, on the eve of the Civil War. He has been a frequent contributor to the Atlantic and is a former Moscow bureau chief for Business Week . He has written for other publications including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, City Journal, Politico, and National...See more

Paul Starobin is the author of Madness Rules the Hour: Charleston, 1860 and the Mania for War , praised by the New York Times as a "fast-paced, engagingly written account" of the hysteria that descended on Charleston, South Carolina, on the eve of the Civil War. He has been a frequent contributor to the Atlantic and is a former Moscow bureau chief for Business Week . He has written for other publications including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, City Journal, Politico, and National Geographic. He lives with his family in Orleans, Massachusetts. See less