Thomas Powers
Thomas Powers is the author of several books about intelligence, including, most recently, Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaida.
In the LRB Archive:
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The Monster Plot: James Angleton, Spymaster · 10 May 2018
- The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton by Jefferson Morley
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I have not heard her voice in a long, long time: Edna and Parker Ford · 5 October 2017
- Between Them by Richard Ford
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All I Can Stand: Joseph Mitchell · 18 June 2015
- Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of the ‘New Yorker’ by Thomas Kunkel
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One Great Good True Thing: Tennessee Williams · 20 November 2014
- Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr
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A Conversation with Gore Vidal · 31 July 2014
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Flub-Dub: Stephen Crane · 17 July 2014
- Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire by Paul Sorrentino
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The Road to West Egg · 4 July 2013
- Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of ‘The Great Gatsby’ by Sarah Churchwell
- The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann
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Mad to Be Saved: The Kerouac Years · 25 October 2012
- The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson
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Comedy is murder: Joseph Heller · 8 March 2012
- Just One Catch: The Passionate Life of Joseph Heller by Tracy Daugherty
- Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller was Dad and Life was a Catch-22 by Erica Heller
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Too Fast: Malcolm X · 25 August 2011
- Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
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Incandescent Memory: Mark Twain · 28 April 2011
- Autobiography of Mark Twain Vol. I edited by Harriet Elinor Smith et al
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11 September · 4 October 2001
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A Thousand Mosquito Bites: Jews in Wartime Dresden · 21 September 2000
- I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1933-41 edited by Martin Chalmers
- To the Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1942-45 edited by Martin Chalmers
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And after we’ve struck Cuba? · 13 November 1997
- The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis edited by Ernest May and Philip Zelikow
- ‘One Hell of a Gamble’: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali
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