Seymour Hersh
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist whose superb reporting revealed some of the worst cover-ups of the second half of the 20th century, Seymour Hersh is author of the best-selling expose of President Kennedy, The Dark Side of Camelot. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and security matters.
Topics:
- Author/Writer /
- Current Affairs /
- International Affairs /
- Journalist /
- National Politics
Seymour Hersh is widely acknowledged as the most influential and acclaimed investigative reporter of the past 40 years. His special focus is, and has always been, the abuse of power in the name of national security.
Hersh's journalism and publishing prizes include:
- Pulitzer Prize
- Five George Polk Awards (a record!)
- Lennon-Ono Peace Prize
and more than a dozen other prizes (Sigma Delta Chi, Worth Bingham, Sidney Hillman, etc.) for investigative reporting. His ground-breaking reports include many that are landmark events in American journalism: the Abu Ghraib prison abuse in Iraq, the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, the C.I.A.'s bombing of Cambodia, Henry Kissinger's wiretapping of his own staff, and the C.I.A.'s efforts against Chile's assassinated President, Salvador Allende.
Most recently, Hersh?s articles in the New Yorker have probed the underside of the Iraq war, the looming threat of war with Iran, and the military quagmire caused by these conflicts.
Hersh began his newspaper career as a police reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago. He served in the Army and worked for a suburban newspaper and then for UPI and AP until late 1967, when he joined the Presidential campaign of Eugene J. McCarthy as speech writer and press secretary. Mr. Hersh joined the New York Times in 1972, working in Washington and New York. He left the paper in 1979 and has been a freelance writer since, with two six-month returns on special assignment to the Times' Washington bureau.
Mr. Hersh has published seven books. His book prizes include the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times award for biography, and a second Sidney Hillman award, for The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House. Mr. Hersh has also won two Investigative Reporters & Editors prizes, for the Kissinger book, in 1983, and in 1992 for a study of American foreign policy and the Israeli nuclear bomb program, The Samson Option. His most recent book is Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib.
Check Availability | + Add to Wishlist | Login to email this
