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Stephen Kinzer is a United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
 and newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
 reporter
Reporter

A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media.Reporters gather their information in a variety of ways, including tips, press releases, sources and witnessing events....
. He is a veteran New York Times correspondent who has reported from more than fifty countries on five continents. During the 1980s he covered revolution and social upheaval in Central America
Central America

Central America is a central geography region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmus portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast....
. In 1990, he was promoted to bureau chief of the Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 bureau and covered the growth of Eastern and Central Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 as they emerged from Soviet rule. He was also New York Times bureau chief in Istanbul
Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, and List of cities proper by population in the world with a population of 12.6 million....
 (Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
) from 1996 to 2000.






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Stephen Kinzer is a United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
 and newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
 reporter
Reporter

A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media.Reporters gather their information in a variety of ways, including tips, press releases, sources and witnessing events....
. He is a veteran New York Times correspondent who has reported from more than fifty countries on five continents. During the 1980s he covered revolution and social upheaval in Central America
Central America

Central America is a central geography region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmus portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast....
. In 1990, he was promoted to bureau chief of the Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 bureau and covered the growth of Eastern and Central Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 as they emerged from Soviet rule. He was also New York Times bureau chief in Istanbul
Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, and List of cities proper by population in the world with a population of 12.6 million....
 (Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
) from 1996 to 2000. He currently teaches journalism and United States foreign policy at Northwestern University
Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a non-sectarian private university research university located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States....
.

Kinzer has written several non-fiction
Non-fiction

Non-fiction is an document or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question....
 books about Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
, Central America, Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
, the US overthrow of foreign governments from the late 19th century to the present and, most recently, about Rwanda
Rwanda

The Republic of Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania....
's recovery from genocide
Genocide

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.While precise genocide definitions, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide ....
. He has spoken out widely against a potential U.S. attack on Iran
Opposition to military action against Iran

Organised opposition to a possible future military attack against Iran by the United States is known to have started during 2005-2006. Beginning in early 2005, journalists, activists and academics such as Seymour Hersh, Scott Ritter, Joseph Cirincione and Jorge E....
, warning that it would destroy the pro-US sentiment that has become widespread among the Iranian populace under the repressive Islamic regime.

Bibliography

  • , with Stephen Schlesinger; Doubleday, 1982; revised ed. Harvard University Press
    Harvard University Press

    Harvard University Press is a publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in academic publishing. It was established on January 13, 1913....
    , ISBN 0-674-07590-0
  • Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John Chipman Farrar. Known primarily as Farrar, Straus in its first decade of existence, the company was renamed several times, including Farrar, Straus and Young and Farrar, Straus and Cudahy and finally to its curr...
    , 2001, ISBN 0-374-13143-0
  • All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
    All the Shah's Men

    All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror is a book, written by American journalist Stephen Kinzer, about the 1953 1953 Iranian coup d'?tat in which Mohammed Mossadegh, Iran's prime minister, was overthrown by American and British agents and monarchist loyal to Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi....
    , John Wiley & Sons
    John Wiley & Sons

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly fields....
    , 2003, ISBN 0-471-26517-9
  • Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Atuntaqui
    Overthrow (book)

    Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq is a book published in 2006 by award-winning New York Times foreign correspondent and author Stephen Kinzer about the United States's involvement in CIA sponsored regime change from the late 19th century to the present....
    , Times Books
    Times Books

    Times Books is a publishing imprint owned by the New York Times Company and licensed to Henry Holt and Company.Times Books began as the New York Times Book Company in 1969, ?Nobody at The Times will get the deal Woodward has,? the senior Times staffer said....
    , 2006, ISBN 0-8050-7861-4
A], with a new afterword, Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press is a publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in academic publishing. It was established on January 13, 1913....
, 2007, IBSN 0-674-02593-8
  • "A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It", John Wiley & Sons
    John Wiley & Sons

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly fields....
    , 2008, ISBN 978-0-470-12


External links

  • July 2008 (videos, articles, pictures, bio, book info, upcoming events)
  • Democracy Now!
    Democracy Now!

    Democracy Now! is a Broadcast syndication program of news, analysis, and opinion aired by more than 700 radio and television, satellite television and cable TV networks in North America....
    ,     March 3, 2008 (video, audio, and print transcript)
  • for Guernica Magazine
    Guernica Magazine

    Guernica: a Magazine of Art and Politics is a magazine that publishes photography, poetry, and fiction from around the world, along with nonfiction, including letters from abroad, investigative pieces, interviews, profiles of artists/writers/musicians or political figures, opinion pieces on international affairs and U.S....
  • on WNYC's
    WNYC

    WNYC is a public broadcasting radio station and formerly a city owned television station in New York City, New York. Broadcasting from lower Manhattan, it is a member station of National Public Radio and carries a mixed news and varied music format on two radio frequencies....
     The Brian Lehrer Show, April 26, 2006
  • on NPR's Fresh Air
    Fresh Air

    Fresh Air is a radio talk show hosted by Terry Gross, broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the United States. In 2004, the show was syndicated to 445 stations and claimed 4.4 million listeners....
    ,     April 5, 2006
  • Democracy Now!, April 21, 2006 (video, audio, and print transcript)
  • Democracy Now!, May 8, 2006 (video, audio, and print transcript)
  • February 10, 2008