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:

• The Monster Plot: James Angleton, Spymaster · 10 May 2018

  • The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton by Jefferson Morley

• I have not heard her voice in a long, long time: Edna and Parker Ford · 5 October 2017

  • Between Them by Richard Ford

• All I Can Stand: Joseph Mitchell · 18 June 2015

  • Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of the ‘New Yorker’ by Thomas Kunkel

• One Great Good True Thing: Tennessee Williams · 20 November 2014

  • Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr

• A Conversation with Gore Vidal · 31 July 2014

• Flub-Dub: Stephen Crane · 17 July 2014

  • Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire by Paul Sorrentino

• 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

• Mad to Be Saved: The Kerouac Years · 25 October 2012

  • The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson

• 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

• Too Fast: Malcolm X · 25 August 2011

  • Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable

• Incandescent Memory: Mark Twain · 28 April 2011

  • Autobiography of Mark Twain Vol. I edited by Harriet Elinor Smith et al

• 11 September · 4 October 2001

• 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

• 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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