Tom Wells

Tom Wells earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. in sociology from Columbia University. He is the author of five books: The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam, Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg, The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four (with Richard A. Leo), The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations, and The Innocence Revolution: How the Innocence Movement Changed America (with Richard A. Leo, forthcoming, 2027). He has also contributed articles to books on the Vietnam War and the 1960s. He has received fellowships and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Columbia University, and the University of California, Berkeley.