Tim Weiner
Weiner in 2012
Born	(1956-06-20)June 20, 1956 (age 69) White Plains, New York, U.S.
Occupation	journalist, author
Alma mater	Columbia University (BA,MS)
Genre	History, biography, non-fiction
Subject	Espionage,national security,United States foreign policy
Notable works	Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Notable awards	National Book Award in Nonfiction Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

Tim Weiner (born June 20, 1956) is an American reporter and author. He is the author of five books and co-author of a sixth, and winner of thePulitzer Prize^[1] andNational Book Award.^[2]

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Weiner was born June 20, 1956, to a Jewish^[3] family inWhite Plains, New York.^[4] His parents, Dora and Herbert Weiner, were both professors.^[4]

Weiner graduated fromColumbia University in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, and from theColumbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979.^[4]

Weiner was a Washington correspondent^[4] forThe Philadelphia Inquirer from 1982 to 1992,^[5] and then worked forThe New York Times, from 1993 to 2009, as a foreign correspondent inMexico,Afghanistan,Pakistan andSudan, and as a national security correspondent inWashington, DC.^[6]

Weiner won the 1988Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as an investigative reporter atThe Philadelphia Inquirer, for his articles on the black budget spending^[7] at thePentagon and theCIA.^[1] His bookBlank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget is based on that newspaper series.

He won theNational Book Award in Nonfiction for his 2007 bookLegacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.^[2][8]

In 2012, Weiner publishedEnemies: A History of the FBI, which traces the history of theFBI's secret intelligence operations, from the bureau's creation in the early 20th century through its ongoing role in the war on terrorism.

Weiner's 2020 book,The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare, 1945–2020, delves into many aspects, largely covert, of theCold War rivalry between the United States and theSoviet Union (and its successor state,Russia). Two episodes given special attention are the CIA's role in the murder ofPatrice Lumumba and U.S. support forJoseph Mobutu's kleptocracy in theDemocratic Republic of the Congo in the 1960s; andRonald Reagan's encounter with PopeJohn Paul II, which led to a covert program to support theSolidarity movement in Poland in the 1980s. The book received largely favorable reviews in both theNew York Times^[9] and theWashington Post, with reviewerTimothy Naftali noting that "Weiner is especially adept at unearthing and explaining the covert side of it all."^[10]

External videos
Booknotes interview with Weiner onBlank Check, October 1, 1990,C-SPAN
After Words interview with Weiner onLegacy of Ashes, July 14, 2007,C-SPAN
Q&A interview with Weiner aboutEnemies, March 11, 2012,C-SPAN
Presentation by Weiner onOne Man Against the World, July 30, 2015,C-SPAN

• Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget.Warner Books, 1990.ISBN 978-0446514521. Based on a series ofPulitzer Prize-winning articles.^[11]
• Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy, with Neil A. Lewis & David Johnston.Random House, 1995.ISBN 978-0679440505.
• Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.Anchor Books, 2008.ISBN 978-0307389008.
• Enemies: A History of the FBI.Random House, 2012.ISBN 978-1400067480.
• One Man Against The World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon.Macmillan, 2015.ISBN 978-1627790833.
• The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare, 1945–2020.Henry Holt and Company, 2020.ISBN 978-1627790864.
• The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century.Mariner Books, 2025.ISBN 978-0063270183.

• Appearances onC-SPAN
• Interviews onNPR
• Interview by thePritzker Military Museum & Library, September 20, 2007.
• Tim Weiner atLibrary of Congress Authorities with catalog records.

• 20th-century American journalists
• 21st-century American journalists
• 20th-century American historians
• 21st-century American historians
• Cold War historians
• Historians of the Central Intelligence Agency
• American foreign correspondents
• American investigative journalists
• American political journalists
• Jewish American journalists
• Jewish American historians
• The New York Times journalists
• 20th-century American male journalists
• National Book Award winners
• Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting winners
• Columbia College, Columbia University alumni
• Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
• Writers from White Plains, New York
• 1956 births
• Living people
• 21st-century American male journalists

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