Thomas E. Ricks (journalist)

Thomas E. Ricks
Thomas Ricks in 2022
Ricks at the 2022 Texas Book Festival.
Born
Thomas Edwin Ricks

(1955-09-25) September 25, 1955 (age 68)
Beverly, Massachusetts, United States
EducationBA
Alma materYale University, 1977
Occupation(s)Writer, journalist, editor, and educator
EmployerCenter for a New American Security
Known forcritique of U.S. national security policy, especially Operation Iraqi Freedom
Awards2000 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (on Wall Street Journal team)
2002 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (on Washington Post team)
Society of Professional Journalists Award for best feature reporting
2007 Distinguished alumnus of Scarsdale High School
Notes

Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955)[5] is an American journalist and author who specializes in the military and national security issues. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as part of teams from the Wall Street Journal (2000) and Washington Post (2002). He has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He previously wrote a blog for Foreign Policy[6][7] and is a member of the Center for a New American Security,[8] a defense policy think tank.

Ricks lectures widely to the military and is a member of Harvard University's Senior Advisory Council on the Project on U.S. Civil-Military Relations. Ricks is the author of several nonfiction books including Making the Corps (1997); the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (2006) and its follow-up, The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006–2008 (2009); the bestselling First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country (2020);[9][10] and Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 (2022).

  1. ^ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2009. Document Number: H1000132733. Fee. Accessed 2009-12-01 via Fairfax County Public Library.
  2. ^ Medak-Seguin, Becquer (April 2, 2009). "Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Ricks on campus". Pioneer. Walla Walla, Washington: Whitman College. Retrieved December 1, 2009.
  3. ^ "Anne Ricks Is Engaged". New York Times. February 13, 1983. Retrieved December 1, 2009. Miss Ricks, a senior at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, attended the American International School in Kabul, Afghanistan, and graduated from the University of Michigan. ... The bride-to-be is a granddaughter of the late Richard Manning Russell, Mayor of Cambridge, Mass., and a great-granddaughter of William Eustis Russell, Mayor of Cambridge and Governor of Massachusetts
  4. ^ "Scarsdale Alumni Association - Distinguished Alumni". Scarsdale Alumni Association, Inc. Retrieved December 2, 2009. 2007 Distinguished Alumni ... TOM RICKS '73 – JOURNALIST
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference WPbio was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Best Defense – Foreign Policy". Retrieved November 23, 2020.
  7. ^ Ricks, Tom (January 16, 2018). "Introducing 'The Long March With Tom Ricks'". Task & Purpose. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  8. ^ "Thomas E. Ricks". Washington, D.C.: Center for a New American Security. Retrieved December 1, 2009.
  9. ^ "Thomas E. Ricks". New York, NY: Penguin Speakers Bureau. Retrieved December 3, 2009.
  10. ^ "Books by Thomas E. Ricks and Complete Book Reviews". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved September 28, 2022.

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