Thomas has won numerous journalism awards, including a National Magazine Award in 1998.
Thomas was an editor, writer, and reporter at Newsweek for 24 years, where he was the author of more than a hundred cover stories. He is the bestselling author of nine works of nonfiction: Being Nixon, Ike's Bluff, The War Lovers, Sea of Thunder, John Paul Jones, Robert Kennedy, The Very Best Men, The Man to See, and The Wise Men (with Walter Isaacson).
Description: Evan Thomas is one of the most respected historians and journalists writing today. Born: in Huntington, The United States. Select the quantity of the product you desire and click the "Add" button. Read Less Below is a list of products arranged by condition. In a clear and fast-paced narrative, Thomas cuts through the mythology to reveal a character who, though he died young just as he was reaching for ultimate power, remains one of the century's most fascinating men. Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson, both of whom were subtly and not-so-subtly trying to blackmail the Kennedys. It is packed with new detail about Kennedy's early life and his behind-the-scenes machinations: his involvement in a cheating incident in prep school his first attempt at romance and his many back-channel political operations - with new revelations about the 19 presidential campaigns, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and his long struggles with J. The portrait that emerges is unvarnished but sympathetic, fair-minded and always readable. He is the first biographer since Arthur Schlesinger to see RFK's private papers, and he interviewed all of Kennedy's closest aides and advisers, many of whom were forthcoming in ways that they had not been before. Thomas had unusual access to his subject's life. 
Evan Thomas's achievement is to realize RFK as a human being, to bring to life an extraordinarily complex man who was at once kind and cruel, devious and honest, fearful and brave. Robert Kennedy has been viewed as hero and villain - as the "Good Bobby" who, as his brother Ted eulogized him, "saw wrong and tried to right it.saw suffering and tried to heal it" - or as the "Bad Bobby" of countless conspiracy theories, the ruthless and manipulative bully who plotted with the Mafia to kill Castro and lusted after Marilyn Monroe.
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