Thomas Powers

Thomas Powers

Thomas Powers (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 together with Lucinda Franks for his articles on Weatherman (organization) member Diana Oughton, [cite web | title = National Reporting | publisher = The Pulitzer Prizes | url = http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/National+Reporting | accessdate =2008-10-05 ] and has contributed to "The New York Review of Books", "The New York Times Book Review", "Harper's", "The Nation", "Commonweal", "The Atlantic", and "Rolling Stone".

External links

* [http://www.americanacademy.de/index.php?id=458]
* [http://www.nybooks.com/authors/102 Powers archive] from "The New York Review of Books"

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