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. He formerly worked for TIME. Thomas began his reporting career at The Bergen Record in New Jersey. He won his numerous journalism awards, including the National Magazine Award in 1998 for Newsweek’s coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.^[1]

Thomas is the author of six books: Sea of Thunder: Four Naval Commanders and the Last Sea War (2006), 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]

He is the grandson of the late Norman Thomas, a six-time Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. He is married and is the father of two daughters. They live in Washington D.C.

Thomas is a regular panelist on the weekly public affairs TV show Inside Washington.^[3]

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[On Newsweek's coverage of the Duke rape case]: "The narrative was properly about race, sex and class.... We went a beat too fast in assuming that a rape took place.... We just got the facts wrong. The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong."

-- American Journalism Review, August/September 2007 issue.[1]