Stephen Kinzer

Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times bureau chief in Managua, Berlin, and Istanbul, is the author of Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. He is writing a book about Rwanda. (March 2007)

From the Review

May 31, 2007: Rwanda: An Exchange

March 29, 2007: Big Gamble in Rwanda

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire, with a foreword by Samantha Power

The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide by Gérard Prunier

Imagined Olympians: Body Culture and Colonial Representation in Rwanda by John Bale

An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography by Paul Rusesabagina with Tom Zoellner

Silent Accomplice: The Untold Story of France's Role in Rwandan Genocide by Andrew Wallis

June 8, 2006: The Trouble with Costa Rica

The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics edited by Steven Palmer and Iván Molina

Estado de la Nación en Desarrollo Humano Sostenible (State of the Nation on Sustainable Human Development)

La Miel de los Mudos, y Otros Cuentos Ticos de Ciencia Ficción by Iván Molina Jiménez

Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization: Can Costa Rica Become Ireland? by Eva Paus

January 12, 2006: Kurds in Turkey: The Big Change

The Kurds in Turkey: EU Accession and Human Rights by Kerim Yildiz, with a foreword by Noam Chomsky

Spoils of War: The Human Cost of America's Arms Trade by John Tirman

The Turks Today by Andrew Mango

Voices from the Front: Turkish Soldiers on the War with the Kurdish Guerrillas by Nadire Mater, translated from the Turkish by Ayse Gul Altinay, with a foreword by Cynthia Enloe

March 24, 2005: Clouds Over Iran

In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran by Christopher de Bellaigue

July 15, 2004: Will Turkey Make It?

July 17, 2003: Downfall in Nicaragua

November 21, 2002: Love in a Time of Revolution

The Country Under My Skin: A Memory of Love and War by Gioconda Belli, translated from the Spanish by Kristina Cordero with the author

October 18, 2001: An Exchange on John Negroponte

September 20, 2001: Our Man in Honduras

July 19, 2001: Country Without Heroes

June 21, 2001: Guatemala: The Unfinished Peace

Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process Susanne Jonas

Los Difíciles Senderos de la Paz en Guatemala Gudrun Molkentin

Memoria Verdad y Esperanza: Version Popular del Informe Guatemala: Nunca Más a report by the Archbishopric of Guatemala

El Drama de la Pobreza en Guatemala: Sus Rasgos y Efectos Sobre la Sociedad a report by the government of the Republic of Guatemala

El Guerrillero y el General: Rodrigo Asturias y Julio Balconi Sobre la Guerra y la Paz en Guatemala Dirk Kruijt and Rudie Van Meurs

December 3, 1992: Self-Portrait of a Revolutionary

The Patient Impatience: from boyhood to guerrilla: a personal narrative of Nicaragua's struggle for liberation by Tomás Borge

Books by Stephen Kinzer

Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds (2002)
Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua (1991)