Seymour Hersh

Seymour Hersh has uncovered some of the most important news stories of our times, and in the process shown America that power, and the exercising of that power on the international stage, comes with a price. Nowhere is that more true than in his most recent bestseller, Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, which has made him once again a subject of national and international attention. Hersh's work has won more than a dozen major journalism prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and four George Polk Awards. His other books, including the best-selling expose of President Kennedy, The Dark Side of Camelot, and The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, have also won major national awards and spent weeks on the bestseller lists. Hersh's lectures draw audiences into the often shadowy world where America's official foreign policy stance meets the reality of politics and power in other parts of the world. His cautionary tales reveal what happens when governments seek to operate unhindered by the checks and balances of our constitutional system. To find out the real State of the Union, Seymour Hersh is the person you have to hear. His book prizes include the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times award for biography, and a second Sidney Hillman award, for The Price of Power. Hersh has also won two Investigative Reporters & Editors prizes, for the Kissinger book, in 1983, and in 1992 for a study of American foreign policy and the Israeli nuclear bomb program, "The Samson Option." In 2004, Hersh won a National Magazine Award for public interest for his three pieces, "Lunch with the Chairman," "Selective Intelligence," and "The Stovepipe."