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More recently Hersh broke the story about U.S. torture at <a href="http://www.rotten.com/library/crime/prison/abu-ghraib/">Abu Ghraib</a> prison in <i>The New Yorker</i>. <p> <a href="/people/354/000022288/">Richard Perle</a> (March 9, 2003): "Look, Sy Hersh is the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist, frankly. [...] he sets out to do damage and he will do it by whatever innuendo, whatever distortion he can -- look, he hasn't written a serious piece since My Lai."<p><b>Brother:</b> Alan (fraternal twin, b. 8-Apr-1937)<br><b>Wife:</b> Elizabeth Sarah Klein<br><p> University: <a href="/edu/520/000068316/">BA History, University of Chicago (1958)</a><br> Law School: <a href="/edu/520/000068316/">University of Chicago Law School (expelled)</a><br><p> <a href="/lists/858/000044726/">Lithuanian Ancestry</a> paternal side<br> <a href="/lists/937/000043808/">Polish Ancestry</a> maternal side<br> <a href="/org/326/000277492/">Center for Investigative Reporting</a> Advisory Board<br> <a href="/org/481/000041358/">Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity</a> <br> <a href="/honors/621/000072405/">Polk Award</a> 1969<br> <a href="/honors/621/000072405/">Polk Award</a> 1973<br> <a href="/honors/621/000072405/">Polk Award</a> 1974<br> <a href="/honors/621/000072405/">Polk Award</a> 1981<br> <a href="/honors/510/000079273/">Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting</a> 1970<br> <a href="/honors/041/000111705/">George Orwell Award</a> 2004<br> <a href="/media/479/000044347/">The New Yorker</a> Staff<br> <a href="/media/640/000044508/">The New York Times</a> 1972-79<br> <a href="/event/089/000348042/">Expelled from School</a> <br><p> <font size=-2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR</font><br> <a href="/films/242/000387078/">War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (19-Apr-2013)</a> · Himself<br> <a href="/films/202/000067998/">The Trials of Henry Kissinger (14-Jun-2002)</a> · Himself<br><p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>Chemical and Biological Warfare: America's Hidden Arsenal</i> (<tt>1968</tt>, history)<br><i>My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath</i> (<tt>1970</tt>, history)<br><i>Cover-Up: The Army's Secret Investigation of the Massacre at My Lai 4</i> (<tt>1972</tt>, history)<br><i>The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House</i> (<tt>1983</tt>, international affairs)<br><i>The Target Is Destroyed: What Really Happened to Flight 007 and What America Knew About It</i> (<tt>1986</tt>, history)<br><i>The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy</i> (<tt>1991</tt>, international affairs)<br><i>The Dark Side of Camelot</i> (<tt>1997</tt>, biography)<br><i>Against All Enemies: Gulf War Syndrome: The War Between America's Ailing Veterans and Their Government</i> (<tt>1998</tt>, politics)<br><i>Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib</i> (<tt>2004</tt>, international affairs)<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=24201"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=24201">Seymour Hersh</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=24201" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>