Non-Fiction for his book Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. Ricks was immensely critical of Fox News' coverage of the 2012 Benghazi attack. While being interviewed by Jon Scott, Ricks accused Fox News of being "extremely political" in its coverage of the attack and stated, "Fox was operating as a wing of the Republican Party." Books Nonfiction Making the Corps. Scribner, 1997. ISBN 0684848171 Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. Penguin Group, 2006. The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006–2008. The Penguin Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59420-197-4 The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today. Penguin Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-59420-404-3 Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom. Penguin Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-59420-613-9 First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country. Harper, 2020. ISBN 978-0-06-299745-6 Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. ISBN 978-0-374-60516-2 Fiction A Soldier's Duty. Random House, 2001. ISBN 978-0-375-50544-7 References External links Foreign Policy bio Ricks discusses Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on October 5, 2006 Ricks discusses The Gamble: General David Petraeus & the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on September 10, 2009 1955 births Living people American foreign policy writers American male non-fiction writers The Atlantic (magazine) people Historians of the Iraq War People from Beverly, Massachusetts People from Scarsdale, New York Scarsdale High School alumni The Wall Street Journal people The Washington Post people Writers from Massachusetts Writers from New York (state) Yale University alumni Harvard Kennedy School people Historians of the civil rights movement