Thomas Powers
Thomas Powers (born December 12, 1940) is an author, and an intelligence expert.
He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 together with Lucinda Franks for his articles on Weatherman (organization) member Diana Oughton (1942-1970).[1] He was also the recipient of the Olive Branch award in 1984 for a cover story on the Cold War that appeared in the Atlantic, and a 2007 Berlin Prize.
His The Man who kept Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979) is "widely regarded as one of the best books ever written on the subject of intellenge."[2] In addition to his books, Powers has been a contributor to The New York Review of Books,[3], The Atlantic,[4] The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Book Review,[5] Harper's, The Nation, Commonweal, and Rolling Stone.
Born in New York City in 1940, he was a 1958 graduate of Tabor Academy. Powers later attended Yale University where he graduated in 1964 with a degree in English. At first he worked for the Rome Daily American in Italy, and then United Press International. In 1970 he became a freelance writer.[6]
Powers is married and lives in Vermont.[7] He has three daughters.
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[edit] Works
- Diana: the making of a terrorist, Houghton Mifflin, 1971, ISBN 9780395123751
- The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA, Knopf, 1979, ISBN 9780394507774
- Thinking about the next war, Knopf, 1982, ISBN 9780394528311
- Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb. Knopf. 1993. ISBN 9780394514116. http://books.google.com/books?id=3gtLN3I0n_cC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Thomas+Powers&hl=en&ei=_L_yTIfNGsWBlAfS-7SIDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- The Confirmation, Knopf, 2000, ISBN 9780375400209, a novel
- Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda. New York Review Books. 2002. ISBN 9781590170236. http://books.google.com/books?id=6ZS4Y7gmT84C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Thomas+Powers&hl=en&ei=_L_yTIfNGsWBlAfS-7SIDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- The military error: Baghdad and beyond in America's war of choice. New York Review of Books. 2008. ISBN 9781590172995. http://books.google.com/books?id=ErJreoBFLfcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Thomas+Powers&hl=en&ei=_L_yTIfNGsWBlAfS-7SIDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- The Killing of Crazy Horse. Random House, Inc.. 2010. ISBN 9780375414466. http://books.google.com/books?id=z8mVZ0Ky9_IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Thomas+Powers%22&hl=en&ei=bMHyTJLdNoK0lQfTouT5DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false.
[edit] Review
Powers is "a great journalistic anthropologist. In possibly the best book ever written about the C.I.A, “The Man Who Kept the Secrets,” Powers took the reader on a fascinating journey into the world of secret intelligence gathering and covert action. The C.I.A. was, at least in the early years of the cold war, a tribe as mysterious and exotic as the Great Plains Sioux of the 1870s. And Powers tells us much that is revealing and often moving about the Sioux in their last days as free warriors".[8]
[edit] References
- ^ "National Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/National+Reporting. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
- ^ Powers, Heisenberg's War (Penguin 1993) at ii, "About the Author".
- ^ "Thomas Powers | The New York Review of Books". Nybooks.com. http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/thomas-powers/. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
- ^ "Thomas Powers - Authors". The Atlantic. 2010-11-24. http://www.theatlantic.com/thomas-powers/. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
- ^ Naftali, Timothy. "Thomas Powers News - The New York Times". Topics.nytimes.com. http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/p/thomas_powers/index.html. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
- ^ Powers, Heisenberg's War (Penguin 1993) at ii, "About the Author".
- ^ "Thomas Powers - Authors". Random House. 2010-11-02. http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=24418. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
- ^ Evan Thomas (November 12, 2010). "A Good Day to Die". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/books/review/Thomas-t.html. A Book Review of The Killing of Crazy Horse.
[edit] External links
- Powers archive from The New York Review of Books
- Friends of the Little Bighorn Battlefield review The Killing of Crazy Horse
- American Academy per Thomas Powers (no longer current)
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