Thomas is the author of six books: Sea of Thunder: Four Naval Commanders and the Last Sea War (2006); John Paul Jones, a biography of the American revolutionary (2003); Robert Kennedy: His Life (2000); The Very Best Men: The Early Years of the CIA (1995); The Man to See: The Life of Edward Bennett Williams (1991), and The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (with Walter Isaacson, 1986).2 He is married and is the father of two daughters. They live in Washington, D.C.
Thomas is a regular panelist on the weekly public affairs TV show "Inside Washington".3
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[On Newsweek's coverage of the Duke rape case: "The narrative was properly about race, sex and class.... We went a beat too fast in assuming that a rape took place.... We just got the facts wrong. The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong."