Tom Ricks, author, “Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq,” March 2, 2008

Thomas E. Ricks, Pentagon Correspondent for The Washington Post and author of the New York Times best-selling book “Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq,” will speak at Cleveland Public Library’s Writers and Readers Series, Sun 3/2, 2PM. This no cost event is open to the public and will take place at the Main Library, Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium, E. 6th Street and Superior Avenue.

As a reporter for the Wall Street Journal for seventeen years, Ricks covered military conflicts, defense, and national security issues. He has spent a great deal of his professional life in war zones and was part of a Wall Street Journal team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on the challenges the U.S. military will face in the 21st century.

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