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Tom makes the rounds

While we are rounding up my various appearances, here is an exchange I did with the estimable Mark Thompson of Time magazine. And here is a very nice book review by the historian James Jay Carafano in The National Interest.

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
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While we are rounding up my various appearances, here is an exchange I did with the estimable Mark Thompson of Time magazine. And here is a very nice book review by the historian James Jay Carafano in The National Interest.

While we are rounding up my various appearances, here is an exchange I did with the estimable Mark Thompson of Time magazine. And here is a very nice book review by the historian James Jay Carafano in The National Interest.

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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