Thomas E. Ricks (journalist)

Thomas E. Ricks (journalist)

Thomas E. Ricks (born 1955 in Massachusetts) is a "Washington Post" Pentagon and military correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winner. 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 author of the bestselling as well as "Making the Corps" and "A Soldier's Duty".

Prior to joining the "Washington Post" in 2000, Ricks was a reporter with the "Wall Street Journal" for seventeen years. He is a 1977 graduate of Yale University.cite web |url=http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/thomas+e.+ricks/
title=Tom Ricks | washingtonpost.com |accessdate=2008-03-18
publisher=Washington Post
quote=Born in Massachusetts in 1955, he grew up in New York and Afghanistan and graduated from Yale in 1977.
]

Ricks lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with his wife. He has a son and daughter.

Bibliography

* cite book
title=
publisher=Penguin
year=2006
ISBN=0143038915

*cite book
title=A Soldier's Duty: A Novel
publisher=Random House
year=2001
ISBN=037550544X

*cite book
title=Making the Corps
publisher=Scribner
year=1997
ISBN=0684831090

External links & References

* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/books/25kaku.html?ei=5088&en=ed583c38a608b09b&ex=1311480000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all New York Times Book Review of "Fiasco"]
* [http://www.pelicanfile.com/reporter.cfm?ReporterID=902 Washington Post Articles by Thomas Ricks]
* [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=514524 Harvard Crimson Review of "Fiasco"]
* [http://www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org/events/2006-10-05-thomasRicks.jsp Interview] on "Fiasco" at the Pritzker Military Library
*cite web|url=http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000065743,00.html
title=Thomas E. Ricks, Penguin Group profile
accessdate=2007-02-21

*cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=25519&view=fromauthor
accessdate=2007-02-21
title=Thomas E. Ricks
work=Author Spotlight
publisher=Random House

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