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Thomas Powers’s books include The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA and Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda. (November 2020)
The Fog of Ambition
‘Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century’ by George Packer
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
by George Packer
June 6, 2019 issue
The War Without End
Directorate S: The CIA and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by Steve Coll
April 19, 2018 issue
The Nuclear Worrier
Daniel Ellsberg’s ‘The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner’
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
by Daniel Ellsberg
January 18, 2018 issue
The Big Thing on His Mind
William Faulkner: A Life Through Novels
by André Bleikasten, translated from the French by Miriam Watchorn with the collaboration of Roger Little
April 20, 2017 issue
The Private Heisenberg
His letters potentially cast the history of the German bomb in a very different light.
My Dear Li: Correspondence, 1937–1946
by Werner and Elisabeth Heisenberg, edited by Anna Maria Hirsch-Heisenberg and translated from the German by Irene Heisenberg.
December 22, 2016 issue
The Charms of George Armstrong Custer
Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
by T.J. Stiles.
December 17, 2015 issue
A Tale of Woe and Glory
‘The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky’
The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky
an exhibition at the Musée du quai Branly, Paris, April 8–July 20, 2014; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, September 19, 2014–January 11, 2015; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, March 9–May 10, 2015
May 7, 2015 issue
The American Hero
American Sniper
a film directed by Clint Eastwood
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in US Military History
by Chris Kyle with Jim DeFelice and Scott McEwen
April 2, 2015 issue
Texas: The Southern Baptists in Power
Rough Country: How Texas Became America’s Most Powerful Bible-Belt State
by Robert Wuthnow
October 9, 2014 issue
The World from the Other Side
Custer
by Larry McMurtry
A Lakota War Book from the Little Bighorn: The Pictographic “Autobiography of Half Moon”
by Castle McLaughlin
April 3, 2014 issue
Warrior Petraeus
All In: The Education of General David Petraeus
by Paula Broadwell, with Vernon Loeb
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
by Fred Kaplan
The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army
by David Cloud and Greg Jaffe
The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today
by Thomas E. Ricks
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
by Nick Turse
Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam
by Lewis Sorley
The American Military and the Lessons of Vietnam: A Study of Military Influence and the Use of Force in the Post-Vietnam Era
by David Howell Petraeus
The Centurions
by Jean Lartéguy, translated from the French by Xan Fielding
March 7, 2013 issue
The Weird Truth About Texas
As Texas Goes...: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda
by Gail Collins
July 12, 2012 issue
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