"John Arthur Heilemann" is an American journalist for New York (magazine)/New York magazine, where he mainly covers US politics. He is the co-author (with Mark Halperin) of Double Down: Game Change 2012/Double Down and Game Change, books about Presidential campaigns. He previously was a staff writer for The New Yorker, Wired (magazine)/Wired, and The Economist. He is the author of a previous book, Pride Before the Fall, about the Microsoft antitrust case. He was the host of a four-part documentary series for Discovery Channel/Discovery called Download The True Story of the Internet/Download: the True Story of the Internet, about the rise of the World Wide Web, which first aired in 2008. Heilemann is also an MSNBC political analyst.

Heilemann holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Political Science from Northwestern University and a master's degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.http://www.washingtonspeakers.com/speakers/biography.cfm?SpeakerID=1930

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[The trial changed all that, the writer says.] He's just a businessman [now], ... He's very much like a lot of the industrialists of the early part of the century.

[And though he stayed out of the courtroom, Gates essentially ran Microsoft's show. The government wanted to settle; Gates decided the charges wouldn't hold water, and] he'd always outfoxed the government before, ... That was a mistake.