U.S. Foreign Policy and the Media
Seymour Hersh
Thursday, 04 Nov 1999 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Seymour Hersh is a Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter who has covered everything from the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam to the growth of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. His books include The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreig Policy and The Target is Destroyed: What Really Happened to Flight 007 and What America Knew About It. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House. His most recent book was the controversial Dark Side of Camelot. Part of the World Affairs Series.
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