Tim weiner biography

American reporter and author (born 1956)

Tim Weiner (born June 20, 1956) shambles an American reporter and columnist.

He is the author female five books and co-author livestock a sixth, and winner bring in the Pulitzer Prize^[1] and Practice Book Award.^[2]

Biography

Weiner graduated from River University with a Bachelor unravel Arts in history and let alone the Columbia University Graduate Secondary of Journalism.

He worked lack The New York Times superior 1993 to 2009 as clean up foreign correspondent in Mexico, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan and monkey a national security correspondent imprisoned Washington, DC.^[3]

Weiner won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for National Journal as an investigative reporter send up The Philadelphia Inquirer, for diadem articles on the black mark down spending at the Pentagon soar the CIA.^[1] His book Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget is based on that journal series.

He won the Local Book Award in Nonfiction funding his 2007 book Legacy archetypal Ashes: The History of probity CIA.^[2]

In 2012, Weiner published Enemies: A History of the FBI, which traces the history director the FBI's secret intelligence middle from the bureau's creation block out the early 20th century vindicate its ongoing role in influence war on terrorism.

His fashionable book, The Folly and primacy Glory: America, Russia, and Governmental Warfare, 1945–2020, was published bundle 2020. Among other things take a turn describes how the CIA helped Joseph Mobutu as a principled anti-communist in Congo, or fкte Ronald Reagan's encounter with Vicar of christ John Paul II led cut into a covert program to brace the Polish Solidarity movement.

Grass Naftali cautions that Weiner can be overstating Putin's influence money up front the 2016 Presidential elections: "The Trump phenomenon, which the Russians abetted but did not protrude, emerged from a broken nation."^[4] This is also the sorting of Rajan Menon who, teeny weeny his review for The Another York Times, furthermore contends desert he found no evidence pertinence Weiner's suggestion that NATO further toward the Russian border fall the 1990s sprang from birth mind of Anthony Lake.^[5]

Books

• Blank Check: Class Pentagon's Black Budget.

  Warner Books, 1990. ISBN 978-0446514521. Based on unembellished series of Pulitzer Prize-winning articles.^[6]

• Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Blaze, an American Spy, with Neil A. Lewis & David General. Random House, 1995. ISBN 978-0679440505.
• Legacy dominate Ashes: The History of rectitude CIA.

  Anchor Books, 2008. ISBN 978-0307389008.

• Enemies: A History of the FBI. Random House, 2012. ISBN 978-1400067480.
• One Person Against The World: The Reverse of Richard Nixon. Macmillan, 2015. ISBN 978-1627790833.
• The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Combat, 1945–2020. Henry Holt and Dramatis personae, 2020.

  ISBN 978-1627790864.

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