Interview #60: Will Bardenwerper

Will Bardenwerper is an accomplished writer who has had his work published in many prominent outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Outside, and Newsweek. He published his first book, The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid, in 2017. In March of 2025, Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America (Amazon link), hit shelves. Before his writing career, he was a Princeton grad who enlisted in the army after 9/11, ultimately spending a 13-month deployment in Iraq in the mid-2000s. From DC in the 1970s after the Senators left for good, he grew up a huge baseball fan and never lost his passion for the sport.