Editing Joe Conason (section)

==Early life==
Conason was born in [[New York City]] and grew up in [[White Plains, New York]]. The family's surname was originally "Cohen".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WJkWAQAAIAAJ|title=Historia Judaica|date=1942-01-01|language=en |last1=Kisch |first1=Guido }}</ref> He was named after his paternal grandfather, [[Joseph Jacob Cohen]], an organizer and journalist of the [[Anarchism in the United States|American anarchist movement]] during the 1920s and 1930s.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America|last=Avrich|first=Paul|publisher=AK Press|year=2005|isbn=1904859275|pages=308–309}}</ref> Conason's parents, Eleanor (née Levinson; August 20, 1917 – January 5, 2002) and Emanuel Voltaire Conason (1912–2008), co-owned Ellie Conason, a contemporary design and crafts store in White Plains.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/13/nyregion/couple-s-long-career-culminates-in-festival.html "Couple's Long Career Culminates in Festival"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 13, 1992.</ref>

Conason earned a degree in history from [[Brandeis University]] in 1975.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.creators.com/author/joe-conason|title=About Joe Conason|website=creators.com|access-date=2016-08-18}}</ref>