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Evan Thomas


Born
in Huntington, The United States
April 25, 1951

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Genre
Politics


Evan Thomas is the author of nine books: The Wise Men (with Walter Isaacson), The Man to See, The Very Best Men, Robert Kennedy, John Paul Jones, Sea of Thunder, The War Lovers, Ike’s Bluff, and Being Nixon. Thomas was a writer, correspondent, and editor for thirty-three years at Time and Newsweek, including ten years (1986–96) as Washington bureau chief at Newsweek, where, at the time of his retirement in 2010, he was editor at large. He wrote more than one hundred cover stories and in 1999 won a National Magazine Award. He wrote Newsweek’s fifty-thousand-word election specials in 1996, 2000, 2004 (winner of a National Magazine Award), and 2008. He has appeared on many TV and radio talk shows, including Meet the Press and The Colbert Repor ...more

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Average rating: 4.13 · 28,856 ratings · 2,686 reviews · 71 distinct works • Similar authors
First: Sandra Day O'Connor
4.24 avg rating — 4,676 ratings — published 2019
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Robert Kennedy: His Life
4.23 avg rating — 3,802 ratings — published 2000 — 17 editions
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Sea of Thunder: Four Comman...
4.15 avg rating — 2,923 ratings — published 2006 — 24 editions
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Being Nixon: A Man Divided
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Ike's Bluff: President Eise...
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Road to Surrender: Three Me...
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John Paul Jones: Sailor, He...
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The War Lovers: Roosevelt, ...
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The Very Best Men: The Dari...
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The Man to See
4.20 avg rating — 239 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions
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“Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy”
― Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life
tags: biography, history
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“...insults were exchanged, but never conversation" (p.17).”
― Evan Thomas, The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
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“It is remarkable how little concern men seem to have for logic, statistics, and even, indeed, survival: we live by emotion, prejudice, and pride.”24”
― Evan Thomas, Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World
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