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One of America’s greatest investigative reporters. * New York Times Magazine *In a city and culture where screeching talk shows and preening columnists have largely supplanted old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting, and most ‘investigative reporting’ consists of the collection of carefully dispensed leaks, Hersh stands virtually alone. – Rupert Cornwell * The Independent *The most feared investigative reporter in Washington. * Guardian *If there is a smoking gun lying around the White House, the reporter most likely to find it is Seymour M. Hersh. – Scott Sherman * Columbia Journalism Review *A whip-smart, preternaturally energetic outsider who … assembled a body of work that helps to radically revise the way Americans see their government. – Bob Thomson * The Washington Post *A groundbreaking journalist who has revealed some of America’s darkest secrets. – David Jackson * The Chicago Tribune *The last great American reporter. * Financial Times *Hersh’s exposés of gross abuses by members of the US military in Vietnam and Iraq have earned him worldwide fame and high journalistic honors. * Foreign Policy *Quite simply, the greatest investigative journalist of his era. – David Remnick, Editor-in-Chief * New Yorker *Hersh is necessary reading for anyone remotely interested in what went wrong and continues to go wrong in Iraq – Praise for CHAIN OF COMMAND * The New York Times *

Seymour M. Hersh has been a staff writer for The New Yorker and The New York Times. He established himself at the forefront of investigative journalism in 1970 when he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his expose of the massacre in My Lai, Vietnam. Since then he has received the George Polk Award five times, the National Magazine Award for Public Interest twice, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the George Orwell Award, and dozens of other awards.