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Thomas E. Ricks

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September 25, 1955

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Thomas Edwin "Tom" Ricks (born September 25, 1955) is an American journalist who writes on defense topics. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He writes a blog at ForeignPolicy.com and is a member of the Center for a New American Security, a defense policy think tank.

He 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. He has reported on military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Ricks is author of five books: the bestselling Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq (2006), its follow-up The Gamble: General David ...more

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Average rating: 4.06 · 17,579 ratings · 1,793 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq 4.11 avg rating — 6,228 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today 4.08 avg rating — 3,065 ratings — published 2012 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom 4.03 avg rating — 3,543 ratings — published 2017 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 3.98 avg rating — 2,122 ratings — published 2009 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making the Corps 4.05 avg rating — 2,018 ratings — published 1997 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Soldier's Duty 3.21 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unraveling: An Update to the Gamble 2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Churchill y Orwell: La lucha por la libertad by Thomas E. Ricks, Antonio Lozano Sagrera (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War Dogs: Tales of Canine Heroism, History, and Love by Rebecca Frankel, Thomas E. Ricks (Foreword) 4.09 avg rating — 629 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“As Orwell once wrote, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”—most especially, for him, facts that they did not want to acknowledge.”
― Thomas E Ricks, Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

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“If there is anything we can take away from them, it is the wisdom of employing this two-step process, especially in times of mind-bending crisis: Work diligently to discern the facts of the matter, and then use your principles to respond.”
― Thomas E. Ricks, Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

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“Orwell saw that people might become slaves of the state, but he did not foresee that they might also become something else that would horrify him—products of corporations, data resources to be endlessly mined and peddled elsewhere.”
― Thomas E Ricks, Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

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Knight's Cross : A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel by David Fraser

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Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks

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The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor

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