Books by Thomas Powers and Complete Book Reviews
Thomas Powers, Knopf, $30 (608p) ISBN 978-0-375-41446-6
Powers (The Man Who Kept the Secrets) details the rise and untimely fall of the Lakota's most famous warrior in this richly detailed, sensitive, and evenhanded portrayal. Little known before his stunning surprise victory over Custer's 7th Infantry...
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Thomas Powers, Author New York Review of Books $14.95 (146p) ISBN 978-1-59017-299-5
Powers (The Intelligence Wars) is a journalist whose recent writings focus on policy and intelligence. This anthology of pieces published between 2003 to 2008, all but one in the New York Review of Books, offers a scathing and eloquent critique of...
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Thomas Powers, Author Alfred A. Knopf $27.5 (607p) ISBN 978-0-394-51411-6
In this important study, Powers addresses one of the lingering mysteries of WW II: why Germany, with its able scientists, material resources and the support of high military officials, failed to build an atom bomb. Throughout the war Allied...
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Thomas Powers, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-375-40020-9
Powers is best known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA. A fiction debut by such a writer raises keen expectationsDand they aren't disappointed. His first novel is a...
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