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Thomas E. Ricks
Thomas Ricks is the military history columnist for The New York Times Book Review and a visiting fellow at Bowdoin College’s history department. The author of six books, including Fiasco and The Gamble, both about the war in Iraq, and, most recently, Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom, he currently is researching and writing a book about the educations of the first four American presidents, looking at what they learned and how they used it.