He has made several trips to Iran, and is the author of All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. Kinzer seeks to explain why these interventions were carried out and what their long-term effects have been. It recounts the 14 times the United States has overthrown foreign governments. In 2006 Kinzer published Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. After completing this assignment, Kinzer published Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds. He spent four years there, traveling widely in Turkey and in the new nations of Central Asia and the Caucasus. In 1996 Kinzer was named chief of the newly opened New York Times bureau in Istanbul, Turkey. From there he covered the emergence of post-Communist Europe, including wars in the former Yugoslavia. He was chief of the New York Times bureau in Bonn, and after German unification became chief of the Berlin bureau.
The other one, Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua, is a social and political portrait that the New Yorker called "impressive for the refinement of its writing and also the breadth of its subject matter." Columbia University awarded Kinzer its Maria Moors Cabot prize for outstanding coverage of Latin America.įrom 1990 to 1996 Kinzer was posted in Germany. One of them, co-authored with Stephen Schlesinger, is Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala. He also wrote two books about the region. In that post he covered war and upheaval in Central America. His foreign postings placed him at the center of historic events and, at times, in the line of fire.įrom 1983 to 1989, Kinzer was the New York Times bureau chief in Nicaragua. Kinzer spent more than 20 years working for the New York Times, most of it as a foreign correspondent.
His articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him "among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling." Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents.
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