Thomas E. Ricks, Author . Random $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-50544-7
In this brisk and assured fiction debut, set in a near-future Washington, D.C., Washington Post
Pentagon correspondent Ricks (author of Making the Corps, an account of boot-camp training) crafts a taut, stimulating tale of contemporary military...
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Thomas E. Ricks, Author Penguin Press $27.95 (482p) ISBN 978-1-59420-103-5
The main points of this hard-hitting indictment of the Iraq war have been made before, but seldom with such compelling specificity. In dovetailing critiques of the civilian and military leadership, Washington Post Pentagon correspondent Ricks (Making
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Thomas E. Ricks, Author Scribner Book Company $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-83109-1
Journalist Ricks first became fascinated by the Marines in 1992, when he lived among them during an assignment to cover U.S. troops in Somalia. Noting that he himself was ill-prepared for life in that distant equatorial land, Ricks was deeply...
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Thomas E. Ricks. Penguin Press, $36 (576p) ISBN 978-1-59420-404-3
Generations of inept, thoughtless, and unaccountable generals have authored disaster, according to this savvy study of leadership in the U. S. Army. Veteran defense journalist and bestselling author Ricks (Fiasco) contrasts the army of WWII, in...
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Thomas E. Ricks. Penguin Press, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59420-613-9
Winston Churchill, the great WWII British prime minister, and George Orwell, celebrated author of 1984 and Animal Farm, never met. There’s no evidence that Churchill ever read a word by Orwell, and the latter never held public office. But they...
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Thomas E. Ricks. Harper, $29.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-299745-6
Pulitzer Prize winner Ricks (Churchill and Orwell) delivers an immersive and enlightening look at how the classical educations of the first four U.S. presidents (George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison) influenced their...
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Thomas E. Ricks. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-374-60516-2
War-fighting doctrine is an unfamiliar yet ideal way to frame America’s “civil rights revolution,” according to this penetrating study. Pulitzer winner Ricks (Fiasco) illuminates episodes in the struggle against Southern segregation, including the...
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Thomas E. Ricks, Author, James Lurie, Read by Penguin Audio Books $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-305906-6
Lurie has that wonderful ability to disappear into the text. His voice is low and steady, with just enough variation to emphasize points, highlight irony and make every sentence eminently clear. You don't need a dramatic reading here-there's plenty...
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