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Seymour M. Hersh (1937-
My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre
and Its Aftermath
New York, Vintage Books, 1970
Seymour Hersh is an investigative journalist who gained prominence after he broke the story of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, when American soldiers killed every man, woman and child -- all unarmed civilians -- about 500 all told, in the vicinity of a village called My Lai 4 on their maps. Women were raped and babies were used for target practice. All of the ugly details are told in Hersh's book, which won him the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1970. He also wrote: The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, which was described by Alan Wolfe in the Nation, "as the official record of the major foreign policy atrocities of the Nixon years." Hersh 's latest book is: Against All Enemies: Gulf War Syndrome; The War between America's Ailing Veterans and Their Government. Hersh deserves credit most recently for breaking the story on the flawed Iraq intelligence used in President Bush's State of the Union long before the mainstream media picked up on the story in a big way.
Sources:
Hersh, Seymour. "The
Stovepipe Annals of National Security." The New Yorker.
October 27, 2003.
"Seymour
M. Hersh." Contemporary Authors Online. Gale Group, 2002.
Rubien, David. "Seymour Hersh." Salon January 18, 2000. 14 January 2002. <http://cobrand.salon.com/people/bc/2000/01/18/hersh/>.
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