Book Reviews

Poisoner in Chief review by London Review of Books

It​ was during the fallout from Watergate that the American public first heard of MK-Ultra, the most notorious of the secret mind control programmes that the CIA ran through the 1950s and 1960s. After Nixon’s men were caught breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in June 1972, Richard Helms, then director of the CIA, refused to […]

America's Legacy of Regime Change

America’s Legacy of Regime Change

Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War by Lindsey A. O’Rourke (Cornell University Press, 2018); 330 pages. For most of history, seizing another country or territory was a straightforward proposition. You assembled an army and ordered it to invade. Combat determined the victor. The toll in death and suffering was usually horrific, but it was all […]

Stephen Kinzer on NPR’s “Here & Now”

How the century-old debate over “American Empire” still resonates

The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire

“The True Flag” Book Reviews

Reviews, interviews and articles pertaining to Stephen Kinzer’s latest book, “The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire”

The Washington Post reviews The Brothers

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