Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh will deliver the Stafford Little Lecture at Princeton University on Nov. 30, with a talk titled, "The War in Iraq: Bush’s Democracy and the Real Thing."
The event is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. in McCosh Hall 50 on the university campus. It is sponsored by the Princeton University Public Lecture Series and is free and open to the public.
A vocal critic of the war in Iraq and what he believes is the Bush administration’s disregard for American democratic traditions, Mr. Hersh has built a reputation as a chronicler of the abuse of power by individuals at the highest government levels, the university said.
He first came to national and international attention during the Vietnam War, when he broke the story of the My Lai massacre and the subsequent cover-up, and reported on the court martial of Lt. William Calley.
His most recent book, "Chain of Command: the Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib," began as a series of articles in The New Yorker magazine describing the torture of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. military police. Tracing the interrogation tactics to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s decision to extend to Iraqi prisons a covert Pentagon policy that targeted suspected terrorists, Mr. Hersh argues that the abuses were a consequence of the administration’s desperate attempt to deal with the Iraqi insurgency.
Mr. Hersh has won numerous journalism prizes, including the Pulitizer Prize for International Reporting for the My Lai story and four George Polk awards.
Other books by Mr. Hersh include "The Dark Side of Camelot," "The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House" and "The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy."

