Crescent and Star by Stephen Kinzer

Crescent and Star by Stephen Kinzer

A sharp, spirited appreciation of where Turkey stands now, and where it may head. --Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer

In the first edition of this widely praised book, Stephen Kinzer made the convincing claim that Turkey was the country to watch -- poised between Europe and Asia, between the glories of its Ottoman past and its hopes for a democratic future, between the dominance of its army and the needs of its civilian citizens, between its secular expectations and its Muslim traditions.

In this newly revised edition of Crescent and Star, he adds much important new information on the many exciting transformations in Turkey's government and politics that have kept it in the headlines, and also shows how recent developments in both American and European policies (and not only the war in Iraq) have affected this unique and perplexing nation.

STEPHEN KINZER is a veteran New York Times correspondent who has reported from more than fifty countries on four continents. During the 1980s he covered revolution and social upheaval in Central America. In 1990 he was named chief of the Times bureau in Berlin, and spent the next six years covering the emergence of post-Communist Europe. Later Kinzer became the first Times bureau chief in Istanbul. He is coauthor of Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala and author of Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua and Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds. Kinzer is currently a New York Times correspondent based in Chicago.

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ISBN 13	9780374131432
ISBN 10	0374131430
Title	Crescent and Star
Author	Stephen Kinzer
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Year published	2001-09-22
Number of pages	252
Prizes	Short-listed for Society of Midland Authors Award (Adult Nonfiction) 2002
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.