Chat & Chowder: Window Seat on the World with Glen Johnson

Glen Johnson. Glen Johnson is a longtime Massachusetts resident who spent most of his career as a reporter. Over a span of 30 years, he worked for the Salem Evening News, Lowell Sun, Associated Press Boston and Washington bureaus, as well as for The Boston Globe in both Washington and Boston. He also edited for Axios and set up the communications shop for the Essex County District Attorney. In 2013, he was offered a job as strategic communications adviser for Secretary of State John Kerry. He ended up traveling with the secretary across a record-setting 1.5 million miles, visiting 93 countries and all seven continents, including Antarctica. “Window Seat on the World” grew out of that experience. It answers all the details about what it’s like to be a government official and represent the United States abroad, while also providing case studies about issues that are current today: Iran and its nuclear program; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Russia’s assault on Ukraine; the steady rise of China as a military and economic challenger; climate change; and the emerging power of Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbors. The book debuted on “Face the Nation,” was the top-performer in its category on Amazon and won a silver medal from the Independent Book Publishers Association. Glen lives north of Boston and currently is focused on a photography business that developed from the pictures he took at the State Department, and which fill the pages of “Window Seat on the World.”