Hedrick Smith

Hedrick Smith
Born (1933-07-09) July 9, 1933 (age 91)
NationalityAmerican
EducationWilliams College
Balliol College, Oxford
Harvard University
Years active1959 - present
Employer(s)The New York Times (1962-1988)
Hedrick Smith Productions (1989-2012)
Notable workThe Russians, The Power Game: How Washington Works, The Pentagon Papers (co-authored), The New Russians, Rethinking America, Who Stole the American Dream?
AwardsPulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
2x Emmy award winner
Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award (1991)
HonoursNieman Fellow at Harvard (1969-1970)
Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University (1955-56)
WebsiteReclaimTheAmericanDream.org

Hedrick Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and Emmy award-winning producer and correspondent.[1] After serving 26 years with The New York Times from 1962-88 as correspondent, editor and bureau chief in both Moscow and Washington, Smith moved into television in 1989, reporting and producing more than 50 hours of long-form documentaries for PBS over the next 25 years on topics from the inside story of the terrorists who mounted the 9/11 attacks and Gorbachev's perestroika to Wall Street, Walmart and The Democracy Rebellion of grassroots citizen reform movements. Smith has authored five best-selling books including The Russians, The Power Game: How Washington Works, and Who Stole the American Dream?, and co-authored several other books, including The Pentagon Papers[2] and Reagan: The Man, the President.[3] Smith is currently Executive Editor of the website ReclaimTheAmericanDream.org and the YouTube channel The People vs. The Politicians.

  1. ^ "Producer Hedrick Smith | About Us | FRONTLINE | PBS". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  2. ^ Sheehan, Neil; Smith, Hedrick; Kenworthy, E. W.; Butterfield, Fox (2017-12-12). The Pentagon Papers. Racehorse. ISBN 978-1-63158-292-9.
  3. ^ "9780026119504: Reagan the Man the President - AbeBooks - Smith, Hendrick: 0026119501". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2021-02-10.