November 25, 2024

Stephen Kinzer ”Sidney Gottlieb: The CIA’s Poisoner in Chief” pt. 1

35 minutes

Guest Info/Bio:

This week I welcome author, journalist, and academic Stephen Kinzer! Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him “among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling.”

Kinzer spent more than 20 years working for the New York Times, most of it as a foreign correspondent. His foreign postings placed him at the center of historic events and, at times, in the line of fire.

After leaving the Times in 2005, Kinzer taught journalism, political science, and international relations at Northwestern University and Boston University. He is now a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and writes a world affairs column for The Boston Globe. While posted in Turkey, Kinzer hosted the country’s first radio show devoted to blues music. He is the author of the entry on Jelly Roll Morton in The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge.

Guest (select) Publications: Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala; Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua; Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds; All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror; Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq; A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It; Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future; The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War; The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire; Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control