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Following his retirement, General Franks published his memoirs in ''American Soldier'' ([[HarperCollins]]<ref>[http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060731588/American_Soldier/index.aspx Publisher Web page.] Retrieved 2010-03-02.</ref>), which debuted as Number #1 on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list in August 2004,<ref name="Fr01" /> displacing President [[Bill Clinton]]'s memoir from the top spot. One reviewer praised General Franks recollections of his Vietnam service but opined that the book, like the plan for and execution of the Iraq war itself, he said, "begins better than it ends." The reviewer expressed the wish that Franks had "relied less on the official record and more on his own experience and memories" in recalling the later war, as he had in recalling the earlier one.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/books/review/26NEWM01.html?scp=1&sq=American%20Soldier%20franks&st=cse "'American Soldier': Man With a Plan, Sort Of"] Review by Michael Newman, ''The New York Times Sunday Book Review'', September 26, 2004. Retrieved 2010-03-02.</ref>
Speaking at the Republican Convention in New York on August 31, 2004, General Franks endorsed President [[George W. Bush]] for re-election.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57264-2004Sep2.html "Text: Remarks by Retired General Tommy Franks to the Republican National Convention"], ''Washington Post'', 2 September 2004 10:21 PM ET. Retrieved 2010-03-02.</ref> President Bush awarded Franks the country's highest civilian award, the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] on December 14, 2004.<ref name="Fr01">[http://www.tommyfranks.com/About.shtml "About General Franks."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306081530/http://www.tommyfranks.com/About.shtml |date=6 March 2009 }} Article at ''tommyfranks.com''. Retrieved 2010-03-02.</ref> In the same month, Franks became a spokesman for Teen Arrive Alive, which is a company that uses [[GPS]] in [[cellular phones]] to tell parents how fast their teenage children are driving.
In December 2005, Franks was appointed to the [[Bank of America]] [[board of directors]], a position he held until resigning on June 11, 2009 for unspecified reasons but as part of an "exodus" of ten directors from April to August, 2009. The bank had received $45 billion of U.S. [[Troubled Asset Relief Program]] (TARP) funding and sustained dramatic losses starting in 2008.<ref>[https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aDWfbk0K9gmY "Bank of America Says Three Directors Quit as Exodus Totals 10"] by David Mildenberg, ''Bloomberg.com'', August 1, 2009. Retrieved 8/1/09.</ref>
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* [https://www.theguardian.com/waronterror/story/0,1361,590822,00.html General Tommy Franks] – UK ''Guardian'', November 9, 2001
* [http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/27850/General_Tommy_R_Franks/index.aspx?WT.mc_id=WIKI_AUTH_FRANKS_041307 Official publisher web page for ''American Soldier'']
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090123214609/http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=562 – the truth seeker, 07/03/2003]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070816033433/http://www.tommyfranks.com/Index.shtml Franks & Associates LLC – About General Franks]
* {{C-SPAN|tommyfranks}}
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