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An Interview With Stephen Kinzer, Part 2

An Interview With Stephen Kinzer, Part 2

September 27, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

The award-winning foreign correspondent and author of The True Flagspeaks about the state of US foreign policy and the media. Stephen Kinzer’s The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of the American Empire, published earlier this year, drew me…

An Interview With Stephen Kinzer

An Interview With Stephen Kinzer

September 11, 2017 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, The Nation.

The award-winning foreign correspondent and author of The True Flag speaks on the 120-year history of American intervention in the world. When I started reading The True Flag, Stephen Kinzer’s latest book, I got only a few pages in before thinking, “I’ve read him…

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