Hedrick Smith, author of Who Stole the American Dream?, explains how the land of opportunity became the land of inequality.
Hedrick Smith
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter; Emmy Award-winning producer; bestselling author.
Hedrick Smith is a bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, and Emmy Award-winning producer. His books The Russians and The Power Game were critically acclaimed bestsellers and are widely used in college courses today. As a reporter at The New York Times, Smith shared a Pulitzer for the Pentagon Papers series and won a Pulitzer for his international reporting from Russia in 1971–1974. Smith’s prime-time specials for PBS have won several awards for examining systemic problems in modern America and offering insightful, prescriptive solutions.
