Stephen Kinzer visits Monday to present "The Brothers"

From the Washington Post, November 14, 2013:

Stephen Kinzer’s “The Brothers”tells the story of two siblings who achieved remarkable influence, serving as secretary of state and director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Eisenhower administration. It is a bracing and disturbing study of the exercise of American global power.

Kinzer, a former foreign correspondent for the New York Times, displays a commanding grasp of the vast documentary record, taking the reader deep inside the first decades of the Cold War. He brings a veteran journalist’s sense of character, moment and detail. And he writes with a cool and frequently elegant style. The most consequential aspect of Kinzer’s work is his devastating critique of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who are depicted as jointly responsible for acts of extreme geopolitical myopia, grave operational incompetence and misguided adherence to a creed of corporate globalism.

More in the WP:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-the-brothers-on-john-foster-dulles-and-allen-dulles-by-stephen-kinzer/2013/11/14/a1ddf9ba-3683-11e3-be86-6aeaa439845b_story.html

More about Kinzer's visit:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/kinzer_stephen14.html

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Newly Added Event-- Journalist Stephen Kinzer 4/7

You are invited to attend the following free event:

Stephen Kinzer, bestselling nonfiction author

April 7 (Monday)

Discussion — 7:30 p.m., [Note early start time] Standish Room, Science Library, Uptown Campus

 

Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent, formerly with the New York Times, and a bestselling author of books on American foreign policy in Central America, Rwanda, Turkey, and Iran. His newest book is The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War (2013), which recounts how the two powerful men helped to shape America’s zealously anti-Communist foreign policy in the 1950s.

 

The Washington Post reviewer called The Brothers, “a bracing, disturbing and serious study of the exercise of American global power.” The book was named a “Best Book of the Year” by the Atlantic and Kirkus Reviews.

 

Cosponsored by the New York State Writers Institute; Women Against War; UAlbany’s History, Political Science, and Judaic Studies Departments, and Journalism Program; and UAlbany Peace Action.

 

For more about Stephen Kinzer:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/kinzer_stephen14.html

 

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