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Dominican Presents Stephen Kinzer in Lecture on America’s Role in 21st Century

Dominican University will present award-winning foreign correspondent and author Stephen Kinzer in a lecture titled “America‘s Role in the 21 ^st Century: Recommendations for the Next President” on Tuesday, April 22. The lecture will be held at 7:00 p.m. in the Springer Suite of the Rebecca Crown Library, 7900 W. Division St., River Forest.

The next American president will face a host of foreign policy challenges. Stephen Kinzer, who is serving as Dominican University‘s Lund-Gill Chair, will evaluate America‘s options and chart a course for the country‘s role in a global world. An expert on the history of US foreign policy, Kinzer has covered more than 50 countries for the New York Times. His articles and books have led the Washington Post to name him “among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling.”

Kinzer‘s most recent book, Overthrow: America‘s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, recounts the 14 times that the US has had a hand in overthrowing foreign governments, including those of Grenada, Panama, Iran and Nicaragua. In 2003, he published All the Shah‘s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror which recounts how the CIA overthrew Iran‘s democratically elected government in 1953. Other books include Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds (2002), Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua (1991) and Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (1983).

Kinzer‘s foreign postings for the New York Times have placed him at the center of historic events. Between 1983 and 1989 he served as the Times‘ bureau chief in Nicaragua and from 1990 to 1996 he was posted in Germany where he served as the Times‘ bureau chief in Bonn. After German unification, he became chief of the Berlin bureau, where he covered the emergence of post-Communist Europe.

In 1996, Kinzer was named chief of the newly opened Times‘ bureau in Istanbul, Turkey, from which he covered the new nations of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Kinzer is currently writing a book on Rwanda.

This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Dr. John Jenks, Dominican University‘s assistant professor of journalism, at 708-524-6932.