Pulitzer Prize Winner Powers
To Speak About World Affairs

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and essayist Thomas Powers will discuss "The Next Four Years," a look at the world situation, Thursday, Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. at the Tunbridge Public Library. The free talk is part of the library’s Winter Evenings lecture series.

Powers’ most recent book is "Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda." This collection of essays written over 20 years was revised and expanded with a new preface and three new essays analyzing the Iraq war and its consequences.

Powers received a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 for articles written about Weatherman terrorist Diana Oughton. His best-known book is "The Man who Kept Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA," which was recognized as the best book on the subject of intelligence in 1979.

Other Powers books include "Diana: The Making of a Terrorist," "Thinking About the Next War" and "The War at Home: Vietnam and the American People." His "Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb" inspired the prize-winning play "Copenhagen."

Powers has been a contributing editor of The Atlantic and The Los Angeles Times opinion section. He is published frequently in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation, Rolling Stone and other periodicals. He was one of four founding partners of Steerforth Press of Hanover, N.H.

For information or to arrange a ride to this event from within Tunbridge call the library at 889-9404.

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