Thomas E. Ricks is the author of First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country. He is the military history columnist for the New York Times Book Review and a visiting fellow in history at Bowdoin College. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for 17 years. He received two Pulitzer Prizes as part of reporting teams at those newspapers, and was a finalist for his book Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq.
