Institute on World Affairs – Cultivating Democracy – Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
Seymour M. Hersh
Wednesday, 10 Nov 2004 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Seymour M. Hersh is the award-winning investigative reporter who broke the story of the Iraqui prison scandal inThe New Yorker and covered in his book Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. He has won more than a dozen major journalism prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and four George Polk Awards. He is the author of six books, including The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Target Is Destroyed: What Really Happened to Flight 007 and What America Knew About It, The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and America's Foreign Policy,The Dark Side of Camelot, and Against All Enemies.
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