Evan Thomas
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Evan Thomas (born April 1951) is an American journalist and author.
A graduate of Phillips Andover, Harvard University and the University of Virginia School of Law, since 1991 he has been the Assistant Managing Editor at Newsweek. From 1986-1996, he was Newsweek's Washington bureau chief. He has won numerous journalism awards, including a National Magazine Award in 1998 for NEWSWEEK’s coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal[1].
Thomas is the author of five books: “John Paul Jones,” a biography of the American revolutionary (2003); “Robert Kennedy: His Life” (2000); “The Very Best Men: The Early Years of the CIA” (1995); “The Man to See: The Life of Edward Bennett Williams” (1991), and “The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made” (with Walter Isaacson, 1986)[2]. His sixth book, “Sea of Thunder: Four Naval Commanders and the Last Sea War,” was published by Simon & Schuster in November 2006[3].
He is the grandson of the late Norman Thomas, a six-time Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. He is married to Osceola Freear and is the father of two daughters, Louisa Herron Thomas and Mary Osceola Thomas. They live in Washington D.C.
On February 2, 2007, Thomas was a guest on WETA-TV's Inside Washington program, and stated that President George W. Bush rebuffed the Iraq Study Group report.
