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Stanley Meisler
When The World Calls: The Inside Story Of The Peace Corps
Peace Corps

United Nations: A History by Stanley Meisler
United Nations

Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War
Kofi Annan
Stanley Meisler & Kofi Annan (2002) by UN Photographer Eskinder DebebeStanley Meisler - March on Washington (1963)
Los Angeles Times articles by Stanley Meisler
Los Angeles Times
Smithsonian Magazine articles by Stanley Meisler
Smithsonian
The Nation articles by Stanley Meisler
The Nation

Ojukwu new
Odumegwu Ojukwu, once the leader of Biafra, died during the last few days of November. He received respectable obituaries in the New York Times and the Washington Post. Both Robert D. McFadden and T. Rees Shapiro got all the facts right and understood the causes and the horrors of the Nigerian Civil War well. But, befitting a man who was only a minor figure in African history, the notices were relatively small, and there was no room to portray his audacity, his operatic flair, his demeaning wit, and his contempt for the many less gifted than he. I interviewed Colonel Ojukwu for the first time in June 1967 a day or two after he had seceded from Nigeria and proclaimed the independent republic of Biafra...
News Commentary
December 29, 2011


Stanley Meisler is the author of the biography Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War, the history United Nations : A History and the history When The World Calls: The Inside Story Of The Peace Corps And Its First Fifty Years. Meisler served as a Los Angeles Times foreign and diplomatic correspondent for thirty years, assigned to Nairobi, Mexico City, Madrid, Toronto, Paris, Barcelona, the United Nations and Washington. He still contributes articles to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Sunday Opinion and Art sections and writes a News Commentary for his website, www.stanleymeisler.com.

For many years, Meisler has contributed articles to leading American magazines including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Atlantic, The Nation, the Reader’s Digest, the Quarterly Journal of Military History, and the Columbia Journalism Review. While most of these articles focus on foreign affairs and political issues, Meisler has contributed more than thirty articles on artists and art history to the Smithsonian Magazine...

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Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

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