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Hedrick Smith

Scottish, 1933-

Hedrick Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and Emmy award-winning producer and correspondent. Smith worked for the New York Times from 1962-1988 as correspondent, editor and bureau chief in both Moscow and Washington D.C. In 1989, Smith transitioned to television. He reported and produced 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 is the author of 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 and Reagan: The Man, the President. Currently he is the executive editor of the website ReclaimTheAmericanDream.org and the YouTube channel The People vs. The Politicians.