Thomas Powers

Topic: Geo.W. Bush and The Long War: What to expect in the First Thirty Years

Born December 12, 1940. Is an author, intelligence expert, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. His books include, The Man Who kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), The Confirmation(2000), a novel and Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda (2002). He won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation, The Atlantic and Rolling Stone. In 1971 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his articles on Weatherman (organization) member Diana Oughton.

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