David M. Barrett

Who is David M. Barrett?

David M. Barrett is a professor of political science at Villanova University and author of "Blind Over Cuba: The Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis", "The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy", Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Papers, and Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers. The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy won the D.B. Hardeman Prize in 2005. A former radio and television journalist, Barrett unsuccessfully sought election in Indiana to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1984.