New York, N.Y. Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2010. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 274 pages. Illustrations. Bookplate inside front board. Inscribed on the title page by the author. Inscription reads, For Bruce--Best regards, Stephen Kinzer. Contains black and white map of Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia opposite the table of contents, and a map at page 20. Includes Introduction, Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgments, and Index. Chapters include Introduction, Part One: For the People, in Spite of the People; Part Two: Our Name Has Not Been An Honored One; Part Three: Very Far Away; and Part Four: The Door is so Wide Open. Stephen Kinzer (born August 4, 1951) is an American author, journalist and academic. He is a former New York Times correspondent. During the 1980s, Kinzer covered revolutions and social upheaval in Central America, and wrote his first book, Bitter Fruit, about military coups and destabilization in Guatemala during the 1950s. In 1990, The New York Times appointed Kinzer to head its Berlin bureau, from which he covered Eastern and Central Europe as they emerged from Soviet bloc. Kinzer was The New York Times chief in the newly established bureau in Istanbul from 1996 to 2000. Upon returning to the United States, Kinzer became the newspaper's culture correspondent, based in Chicago, as well as teaching at Northwestern University. Kinzer then moved to Boston and taught journalism and United States foreign policy at Boston University. He has written several non-fiction books about Turkey, Central America, Iran, and the US overthrow of foreign governments from the late 19th century to the present, as well as Rwanda's recovery from genocide. More