He directs the Carey Institute's nonfiction residency program in upstate New York and teaches as the 2015 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies at Princeton.

He is working on a history of the 21st-century CIA. He has lectured at the CIA, universities, political think tanks, and Presidential libraries. Tim Weiner has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for reporting and writing on national security. New York Times reporter Tim Weiner, who has written about the CIAs history of avoiding responsibility, discusses the balance between the needs of the agency and a democratic society. LEGACY OF ASHES, his chronicle of the CIA, won the 2007 National Book Award it was a bestseller across the United States and around the world. His previous books include ENEMIES, a history of the FBI acclaimed as 'fascinating' by The Wall Street Journal. This is powerful raw material, but Weiner's brilliant turns of phrase transform it into something extraordinary.' Chilling excerpts from tape recordings that have only recently been made accessible include cold-blooded exchanges between Nixon and Kissinger in which the two debate the merits of committing war crimes in order to win in Vietnam. Publisher's Weekly said ONE MAN AGAINST THE WORLD is a 'devastating account of Nixon's presidency, drawing on documents declassified in the last seven years.

It speaks further volumes that what we are learning is even worse than what we knew.' 'It speaks volumes about Nixon that there is still more to learn about him, 40-plus years after Watergate. His new book, ONE MAN AGAINST THE WORLD: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon, was hailed as ' eye-opening study of Richard Nixon's booze-soaked, paranoid White House years and the endless tragedies they wrought' by Kirkus Reviews prior to publication. As a correspondent for The New York Times, he covered the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon in Washington, and reported on war and terrorism from Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Sudan, and many other nations over the course of 15 years. Tim Weiner has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his reporting and writing on American national security.

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