Stephen Kinzer: 10 books
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Iran, Turkey, and America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
The bestselling author of Overthrow offers a new and surprising vision for rebuilding America's strategic partnerships in the Middle East
What can the United States do to help realize its dream of a peaceful, democratic Middle East? Stephen Kinzer offers a surprising answer in this paradigm-shifting...
Overthrow
America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
A fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments -- not always to its own benefit
"Regime change" did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but has been an integral part of U.S....
by Stephen Kinzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's world
During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects...
Berlin 1945
World War II: Photos of the Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
These rare pictures from post-war Berlin have been taken by photographers of the Soviet Army and by Germans in their employ immediately after the surrender and in the months to follow. A city reduced to rubble, and now under martial law, is imposed by the victorious Communists. And now, broken tanks...
The True Flag
Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America’s interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.
How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous...
Poisoner in Chief
Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s.
The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer—the...
Crescent and Star
Turkey Between Two Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2001
"A sharp, spirited appreciation of where Turkey stands now, and where it may head." —Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer
In the first edition of this widely praised book, Stephen Kinzer made the convincing claim that Turkey was the country to watch -- poised between Europe...
All the Shah's Men
An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
With a thrilling narrative that sheds much light on recent events, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country’s elected prime minister, ushered in a quarter-century of brutal rule under the Shah, and stimulated the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and...
A Thousand Hills
Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home. Learn about President Kagame, who strives to make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa, in a single generation. In this adventurous...
Dateline Havana
The Real Story of Us Policy and the Future of Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Expertly researched and deftly reported, Dateline Havana is a probing exposé of U.S. policy and the future of Cuba on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. Covering art, music, and Cuban politics, Reese Erlich creates a tableau that is at once moving and informative.