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Thomas Maier, United States, is an award-winning author and investigative journalist for Newsday in New York. Maier’s latest book is The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings, a multigenerational history of the Kennedy family and the Irish Catholic immigrant experience in America.

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He is also the author of Dr. Spock An American Life, named a “Notable Book of the Year” in 1998 by The New York Times and the subject of a BBC and A&E Biography documentary. In 1994, Maier’s book, Newhouse: All the Glitter, Power and Glory of America’s Richest Media Empire and the Secretive Man Behind It, won the Frank Luther Mott Award by the National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communication as best media book of the year. Maier joined Newsday in 1984, after working at the Chicago Sun-Times. He has won several national and regional honors, including the national Society of Professional Journalists’ top reporting prize in 1987 for an exposé on police, Columbia University’s John M. Patterson Prize for a TV documentary on organized crime, and the 2002 ICIJ Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting for his investigation into the plight of America’s immigrant workers.

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