Stephen Kinzer

Stephen Kinzer (2017)

Stephen Kinzer (* 1951 ) is an American journalist and author. He has worked as a foreign correspondent in more than fifty countries on five continents.

Life

Kinzer worked as a journalist for the New York Times newspaper for more than 20 years . From 1983 to 1989 he was the New York Times office manager in Nicaragua . From 1990 to 1996 he headed the New York Times office Germany in Bonn and Berlin . In 1996, Kinzer was appointed head of the newly opened New York Times office in Istanbul .

Kinzer is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and writes foreign columns for the daily newspaper The Boston Globe .

Works

• Project Mind Control . Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and LSD - how American intelligence tried to control consciousness. 1st edition. Riva, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-7423-1336-2 (American English: Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, Henry Holt and Co. New York 2019. Translated by Martin Rometsch, original ISBN 978-1-250-14043-2 ).
• The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt , Mark Twain , and the Birth of American Empire , Henry Holt and Co., 2017. ISBN 978-1-6277-9216-5 .
• The Brothers: John Foster Dulles , Allen Dulles , and Their Secret World War , Times Books, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8050-9497-8 .
• Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future , Times Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8050-9127-4 .
• Reset Middle East: Old Friends and New Alliances: Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, Iran , IB Tauris, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84885-765-0 .
• A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It , John Wiley & Sons, 2008, ISBN 978-0-470-12015-6 .
• Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua , with a new afterword, Harvard University Press , 2007, ISBN 0-674-02593-8 .
• Putsch: on the history of American imperialism . 1st edition. Eichborn, Frankfurt M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8218-4587-6 (American English: Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq . New York 2006. Translated by Ulrich Enderwitz, original ISBN 0-8050-7861 -4 ).
• All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror , John Wiley & Sons, 2003, ISBN 0-471-26517-9 .
  • In the service of the Shah . CIA , MI6 and the roots of terror in the Middle East , Weinheim: Wiley-VCH-Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-527-50415-2 .
• Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds , Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2001, ISBN 0-374-13143-0 .
  • Half moon and star: Turkey between two worlds , Weinheim: Wiley-VCH-Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-527-50493-0 .
• Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala , with Stephen Schlesinger ; Doubleday, 1982; revised ed. Harvard University Press , ISBN 0-674-07590-0 .
  • Banana War: CIA Putsch in Guatemala , Hamburg: Kabel 1984, ISBN 978-3-921909-52-2 (several other editions).

Honors

• Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University
• Honorary Doctorate from the University of River Forest, Illinois .
• Honorary Doctorate from Scranton University

Web links

• http://www.stephenkinzer.com
• https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stephenkinzer
• https://watson.brown.edu/people/visiting/kinzer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ You shouldn't get caught . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1986 ( online - 15 December 1986 ).
2. ↑ Thomas Speckmann: The Arrogance of Power in Zeit Online from March 6, 2008, accessed on September 1, 2018.
3. ↑ Stephen Kinzer ─ Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, October 2, 2019