Books by Stanley Meisler

Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse

Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse

For a couple of decades before World War II, a group of immigrant painters and sculptors, including Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine and Jules Pascin dominated the new art scene of Montparnasse in Paris. Art critics gave them the name "the School of Paris" to set them apart from the French-born (and less talented) young artists of the period. Modigliani and Chagall eventually attained enormous worldwide popularity, but in those earlier days most School of Paris painters looked on Soutine as their most talented contemporary. Willem de Kooning proclaimed Soutine his favorite painter, and Jackson Pollack hailed him as a major influence...
When The World Calls: The Inside Story Of The Peace Corps And Its First Fifty Years

When The World Calls: The Inside Story Of The Peace Corps And Its First Fifty Years

Since its inauguration, the Peace Corps has been an American emblem for world peace and friendship. Across the nation, there are 200,000 former volunteers, with alumni including members of Congress and ambassadors, novelists and university presidents, television commentators and journalists. Yet few Americans realize that through the past nine presidential administrations, the Peace Corps has sometimes tilted its agenda to meet the demands of the White House. Stanley Meisler discloses, for instance, how Lyndon Johnson became furious when volunteers opposed his invasion of the Dominican Republic; he reveals how Richard Nixon literally tried to destroy the Peace Corps, and he shows how Ronald Reagan endeavored to make it an instrument of foreign policy in Central America. But somehow the ethos of the Peace Corps endured.
Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War

Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War

When Harvey Rice, president of Macalester College, introduced a young African student to his new classmates in 1959, he urged the Americans to get to know this young man, who was destined for a lifetime of great accomplishment and would be a world leader some day. Despite the eerie accuracy of Rice's prediction, however, Kofi Annan's path to destiny was anything but direct. In Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War, former Los Angeles Times foreign and diplomatic correspondent Stanley Meisler traces Annan's very unconventional rise from optimistic student to striving personnel and budget specialist in the United Nations bureaucracy to full-time manager of the world's crises...
United Nations : A History

United Nations : A History

Beginning with the birth of the U.N., when Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, and Gromyko set the stage, United Nations: A History brings us a cast of profoundly important and colorful international players: the brilliant Dag Hammarskjöld, who became the most daring, imaginative Secretary-General the U.N. ever had; Nikita Khrushchev, who electrified the General Assembly as he pounded his shoe in protest over Congo; Ralph Bunche, the grandson of a slave and "the Jackie Robinson of American diplomacy," who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his U.N. work in the Middle East; and U.S. ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who walked out of the General Assembly over the Third World's anti-Zion resolution. United Nations: A History is a story filled with action and heartbreak.

textbook: Thinking Clearly: Cases in Journalistic Decision-Making
Edited by Tom Rosenstiel & Amy S. Mitchell
Introduction by James W. Carey
1. McCarthyism, 1950-1954 by John Herbers
2. Internet Journalism and the Starr Investigation by J.D. Lasica
3. Columbine School Shooting: Live Television Coverage by Alicia C. Shepard
4. Minnesota Basketball Cheating Case by Geneva Overholser
5. Richard Jewell and the Olympic Bombing by Ronald J. Ostrow
6. The Massacre in El Mozote by Stanley Meisler
7. Watergate by James M. Perry
8. New Orleans Times-Picayune Series on Racism by Jack Nelson
9. John McCain's 2000 Presidential Campaign: Political Reporting by Jon Margolis

Book Reviews by Stanley Meisler