Web Bonus: Stephen Kinzer on America’s History of Regime Change and Mark Twain’s Anti-Imperialism 

Kinzer is an amazing historian! I just watched his C-SPAN interview on the Dulles brothers.

Congratulations to Mr Kinzer for his great book and Amazing Research in History of American Tainted and Bloody political imperialism.👏👏👏👍💖

This was absolutely an outstanding interview. All of them today were outstanding. No one presents real journalism like Democracy Now! I am grateful for a news source I can trust. Thanks Amy and all the staff.

In Grenada, the Rangers attack lasted 6 hours, since the tiny Island has no Army, no Navy or Air Force. The Ranges fought against 287 fearsome Police Officers (who were actually half of these, cuz the other half had not yet come to work the afternoon shift). The dead US Rangers were caused by a clash between Choppters, and the others died under "Friendly Fire"; they shot each other. Correct numbers: There were 34 policemen killed and many injured. The dead Cubans were military engineers and airport workers; they were not Cuban soldiers. Only military engineers and electricians. The airport was converted into "Casus Belli" cuz the Reagan Administration assured that it would be to install a Soviet Military Base, when the US has 23 Bases only in the Caribbean and almost 800 Military Bases scattered around the world. Another "Casus Belli" was that 120 medical students were hostages and prisoners within the facilities of their own University. Really? (NOT) Why weren't they evacuated BEFORE starting hostilities? That would have been very simple and without using Logistics. But not. They better put the lives of the students at risk. The tiny Island of Grenada is 4 times smaller than the Island of Puerto Rico. Its entire population fits into New York Yankee Stadium. They had barely 3 years of having won their Independence and passing, from being a Colony of the English Empire, to a Sovereign Nation. Did they really deserve the abuse of power from a foreign invasion?

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Thanks for this courageous discussion of US Corporate Emperialism. Keep up the good work.

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Kinzer's remarks, starting at about 15:40, absolutely describes what has/is happening to Venezuela and truly explains media complicity in this 'empathy' strategy. UGH!

EU countries that expelled Russian diplomats this week didn't expel US diplomats for the Iraq invasion.

And then you hear some people say " why do the world hate us"

15:35 I was drinking water when he said "americans are very compassionate people" I almost choked

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On the Granada invasion the discussion left out the fact that Reagan had another reason for the US invasion of Granada because Granada had extended their airport to allow larger planes to land making it much easier for Cuba to fly troops and equipment to support the battle against the US-supported South African occupation of Namibia and against the South African troops who were fighting in Angola in support of the US-supported Unita group (remember, Reagan's government labeled the ANC and Nelson Mandela as terrorists).

He didn't mention the interests of weapon's manufacturers in continually finding new markets for their weapons. I think that has a lot to do with the wars and interventions the United States gets involved in.

As pop music group ABBA sang in their song Waterloo, "The history book on the shelf, it's always repeating itself."

What a breath of fresh air! Brilliant interview, and a fascinating glimpse of the other side of the coin tossed when nations go to war. Outstanding. Grateful, from South Africa.

Very interesting remarks, but I'm not sure about the statement that the amercian people are very compassionate. It seems more like a people with a childish notion of good vs evil combined with belligerent tendencies. In America, the government and the media barely have to make effort to drag the public opinion into supporting wars (which always takes place somewhere else and do not imply direct deaths and destruction in the USA). At this point, there are multiple recent examples of the catastrophic results of US military interventions, nevertheless here we are, with the public opinion all into escalating the war between Ukraine and Russia.

What a damn great interview with Stephen Kinzer ! 😻

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Love Amy. A real hero.

thank you for your honesty

The new country (the US - well all colonies) were a refuge for the dispensable desperate poor of the old continent. And also for ruthless people (some already wealthy some poor) who had more chances to make a fortune in the new system than in the old system with its well established pecking order. (And the resources in Europe had been depleted over millenials). No gold rush in Europe for instance, those finds had been made thousands of years earlier. So the US elites were maybe even more ruthless than the European elites. (The violence against the labour movement for instance in the US is worse - maybe because the US robber barons needed to be much harder to even get to the top - in Europe a person would have used inherited wealth - so they defended their profits by all means necessary (including illegal and brutal measures). The mindset aligns with the desire to rob the assets of other countries and restrict THEIR freedom - in favour of the the business interests of the US elites (not the US citzens in general).

'for the cost of a toilet seat on a B52 bomber' 👂Steve Kinzer has a dark sense of humour 😊

Grenada was done to take attention away from the recent Lebanon failure and to bolster the popularity of the Reagan administration.

I remember Grenada being presented as a "big victory" for Ronald RayGun.

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Outstanding interview.

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Interesante , buscaré el libro , pero no han mencionado nada de la invasión de USA a Panama en diciembre de 1989. Miles de muertos que no sabemos cuantas vidas se perdieron .

The remarkable aspect throughout the American Plutocracy, is that the United States has a fictitious and Moral providential responsibility to make the World safe particularly for American Democracy. The American Citizenry aren't allowed real Democracy within our own Borders or Border Security, however we're going to have the audacity to teach Others (who didn't ask) what Democratic values are. The righteous indignation about these unnecessary bunglings that lost so much is totally justfied, but too little too late. No one bothered to consider asking something very simple; • What in God's name was the American Government doing facilitating a War Crime over in a Sovereign country that hadn't aggressed against or threatened the United States to begin with, without a Constitutional Declaration of War Authority?! • How is it that One goes to fight for our Constitution when they're sent off by an Incompetent Governing Elite (who bureaucratically wants Power) to fight Criminal, Immoral, Unconstitutional Wars for Oil, Wars of Aggression and Wars of Attrition?! • How is it that the American Government wants the rest of us to fight the Corporate War of Aggression, yet they have the unbridled audacity to Steal and abrogate our own Constitutional Rights within our own Borders?! • Where was Donald Trump, Dick Cheney, their loved ones and friends when it was time to lay it on the line for the Horror in Vietnam and the Vietnam Style War in Iraq?! I'm in bereavement for the Widows, our lost Sons and Daughters in Uniform since they're "Collateral Damage" caught up in the horrific consequences of failed blood soaked American Imperialism. I feel benevolence for the grieving widows in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and elsewhere since they too are "Collateral Damage" brought by our debacle of an American Government. American Democracy has become a proverbial self-fulfilling prophecy. 1. In 1951, the Democratically-Elected Parliament of Iran elected a Man named Mohammad Mossadegh to be Iran’s Prime Minister. Mossadegh angered British Empire Officials by nationalizing British Oil interests in the country. British officials turned to the CIA for assistance. In 1953, the CIA secretly fomented a violent Coup D'Etat in Iran, which succeeded in ousting Mossadegh from power, making the Shah of Iran the supreme unelected Dictator of the country. To fortify the Shah’s dictatorial hold on Power, the CIA helped organize and train the his Domestic Police Force, the Savak, essentially a combination of the CIA, NSA, and the Military. Part of the CIA’s training teaching Savak Agents the art of Torture. The next 26 years, the Iranian Citizenry suffered under one of the most brutal and tyrannical Dictatorships in the World, One that US Officials fully supported, called an ally and friend of the United States. In 1979, Iranians successfully revolted against the Shah and ousted him from Power. One result wasn't a restoration of the Democratic System that had elected Mossadegh, rather another brutal religious Dictatorship. The awful Relations between Iran and the United States Government that continues to exist. 2. In 1951, the Guatemalan Citizenry Democratically-Elected a Man named Jacobo Arbenz their President. Arbenz, wasn't satisfactory to the National-Security Branch, specifically the Pentagon and the CIA. The US Officials opposed Arbenz since he was a Socialist, and US Officials considered a Socialist President of Guatemala a threat to “National Security” of the United States. In 1954 - one year after the Coup D'Etat in Iran, the CIA fomented a violent Military Coup D'Etat that succeeded in removing Arbenz from Power and replaced him with the most brutal unelected Military Dictators in Latin American History, a Man named Carlos Castillo Armas. The CIA had a kill list prepared for the Coup, Arbenz was able to escape by fleeing the country before Castillo was to get him. The CIA’s destruction of Guatemala’s Democratic System threw the country into a 30-year Civil War that killed Guatemalan Poor People. 3. In 1960 a Man named Patrice Lamumba was elected Congo’s first Prime Minister after Independence from Belgium. Lamumba spoke out against Western Imperialism and refused to take sides in the Cold War, the CIA to conclude that he was a threat to “National Security.” The CIA orchestrated the Assassination of Lamumba on January 17, 1961, 3 days before President John F. Kennedy was sworn in, liked Lamumba and would've ordered the CIA to stand down. 4. In 1970 a Man named Salvador Allende received a plurality of votes in the Presidential Election in Chile. Pursuant to the Chilean Constitution, the Election was thrown into the National Congress. President Richard Nixon, his National-Security team, the Pentagon, and CIA concluded that because Allende believed in Communism and Socialism, he posed a grave threat to “National Security” to the United States. The CIA attempted to bribe Members of the Congress to vote against Allende. It orchestrated the kidnapping of the head of Chile’s Armed Forces, Gen. Rene Schneider, who opposed a US Military Coup D'Etat in his country especially since it violated the country’s Constitution. The kidnapping attempt on Schneider left him dead. The CIA then fomented a Coup D'Etat that took place on September 11th 1973 that violently ousted Allende from Power leaving him dead. Army Gen. Augusto Pinochet, one of the most brutal unelected Military Dictators in History took Power. Pinochet’s 17-year Reign of Military Terror came to an end in 1990, he and his CIA-supporters Incarcerated, Raped, Tortured, or killed 10,000's - whose only “Crime” was believing in Socialism - with the full support of Richard Nixon, and the “National Security” team. Of course, there are the more recent support of Wars of Attrition that ousted Democratically-Elected Presidents that the United States Government disapproved of, replaced by a brutal unelected Dictator. Cuba, Honduras, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria to name a few. When the word gets out that our blood soaked American Imperialism is nothing more than Militaristic boondoggles to serve the interests of the Deep State, the Military Industrial Complex, and Corporate America...Our $20 Trillion Dollar Debt cesspool and our Phony Monopoly Money isn't worth the paper it's printed on...If it ever gets out that the American Government cannot serve the needs of the American Citizenry since both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue is Corporate Occupied Territory, The Electorate will certainly grieve that they ever went along with these Crimes against Humanity, meanwhile Capitol Hill continues drowning in a sea of it's own Bull****! Not exactly American Democracy is it?!

It is sad that high schools today don't include in their curriculum William R. Hearst & Pulitzer's roles in fostering "yellow journalism" (e.g., "remember the Maine").

Did he say amerikkka is a very passionate people? ARE YALL ON DOPE! Amerikkkans has no compassion for any non white people and is directly responsible for the death and destruction of billions of innocent people.

Thank God we are living in the belly of the Beast for if we lived outside the belly of the Beast we would be devoid as this beast devoid every one else.

Churchill did talk about nuking Moscow and Gen. MacArthur wanted to invade China, oust Mao and replace him with Chang Kai-Shek.

Sending love to you my black brothers in Grenada. Love from South Africa

Regime change of in Chile was made into a movie "Missing". Salvador Allende and his family were gunned down. Similar murders were carried out of PM Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family in Bangladesh. Kissinger and Bangladesh Army Chief Ziaur Rahman carried the murders of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's family including his 7 year old son.

Vielen Dank für die wichtige Sendung. So etwas wird in Deutschland nicht gesendet 👍

War is a racket!!!!! Enough said.

Stephen Kinzer is telling some historical truth. His point of view is clear, the interest and story line of the USA.

The heeding of European waring and expansionists powers to the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 . When he was delivering speech to the Senate and House of Representatives said : " the citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of the liberty and happiness of the fellow men on that side of the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part , nor does it comport with our policy so to do..., to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...". As president James Monroe, I wished that President Joe Biden not to involve in or to take on any part of fighting European countries , instead to improve political, social, economic and financial relationships. I mean , with no malice to any nationalities, no alien sedation acts, no nationalisation or freezing money in bank accounts of countries' citizens because you don"t like their political or social choices. No political hypocrisy, rather it is nice to accept the other fellow human basic rights: life , liberty, and pursue of happiness, and try your best to befriend with everybody.

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I agree with you 100%, lets get the hell out of there.

Never discussed this in high school....WTF

The vital interest of the USA is capitalism and war is profitable .... At least for the military industrial complex.

My problem with Steph Kinzer is the language he uses to describe the acts of agression of the US Rogue State throughout its history, calling them adventures and not acts of war and terror that violate the rule of law on a daily basis. Just getting out of a country you invaded for hegemonial and corporate interest and that are destroyed for decades to come shows just his lack of sentiment for the extent of Murican Imperial conduct

Informative report. In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

I wish there was a link in the description that lead to Part I of this interview.

I can't tell if he is attacking or defending US capitalist imperialism.

Great information. One comment - Americans ae compassionate people. Then why are Americans content with suffering of black people in the US? Look at your back yard, before you look further.

This is repeating itself 4 year later in Ukraine they have played another theatrical performance billions of dollars off the sympathies of the country and abandoned the Iraq and Afghanistan wars 20 years later. The Hyprocrisy of if all.

War is a Racket by General Smedley Butler covers the early invasions in Philippines, Central America, Caribbean, and other places.

Bring kinzer on to comment on Ukraine

I learn soooo much from this show

Compassionate?! Americans?!!

Amerikkka history is a violent savagery, unparalled evil, inherent racism and a hate that can never be satisfied. NOT EVEN SODOM AND GOMORRAH CAN HOLD A CANDLE TO THE U.S.

our leaders should listen to people like SK, but no, there's no money doing that!

... we CAME.... we deployed ordnance.... we DUMPED the project like a 4-yr old child discards a no longer needed toy.....

I remember around 1983 about 267 soldiers were killed in a marine barracks and hundreds of others injured from a truck bomb in Beirut, and that right there I thought Ronald Reagan was about to declare war, instead he invades Grenada because from what I heard, they had Cuban soldiers to help them to build an airport to attract more tourist and there were American medical students there as well, but Reagan looked at it as a threat, also, I want to mention that before Grenada as Cuba for help, they ask the U.S but they said no, but it's funny, right after that invasion, it was used to re elect Ronald Reagan

El Salvador is in trouble for making bitcoin a reserve asset without the U.S. government's approval!

This is sickening

Note - the very same month - October '83 .... 241 Marines/Peacekeepers were killed in Beirut - an invasion was a very effective way for Reagan to alter the "news cycle" ... As for creating a "Jewel of the Caribbean" ... Let's not forget "America's Showcase in the Caribbean" ... (Puerto Rico), and how they have been treated.

GOOD Guests, nice to have a ray of light on this foul situation, i can witness for the truth of what the President said about USA control of media, 6 members of my family killed, NO MORE! billions of dollars worth of my royalties stolen while i was treated less than dirt. but because i am an American,my work on science, this time is will cause the end of this countries economy. truth and restitution to R.M.H.C. miss you BEN Linder! [aka Bobbe May Galileo, juggler of extraordinary reality] HOPE

Its same for Ukraine and Russia. Let them resolve their problems. Ukraine is far away. What strategic interests does the USA have over there. Remember Ukraine is Russia neighbor

Do yourself a favor and read all of this guy's books.

Ken Burns should hook up with this man. Fascinating and very disturbing

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The military industrial complex benefit in all these cases doesn't matter if something is accomplished. Weapons and ammunition is sold.

No one nowhere: The US: WE HAVE TO INVADE THAT COUNTRY!

Astonishing that a gentleman so knowledgeable should still think that US busybodyness had to do with the Soviets (12:24). That was the pretext. The true reason was independent nationalism, a term this gentleman doesn't use but which describes everything he says very clearly. NChomsky asks and answers a question: 'What happened when the Russian threat disappeared in 1989? Answer: everything continued much as before.' Kissinger described the democratically elected Salvador Allende's move towards independent nationalism as a “virus” that might “spread contagion.” And in a memorandum to President Kennedy, Schlesinger wrote of the dangerous development of 'the Castro idea of taking matters into one’s own hand'.

An interesting 'Part III' to this discussion might be 'What goes around comes around'. So, if the US people were silly enough to elect a president who is a declared socialist, might the Monroe Doctrine be enforced on their own country 'to protect US interests'?

Now, since the middle east conflicts are over, we have moved on to the Ukraine.

Reagan had conventional weapons off loaded in the Carrier Air Groups of the Mediterranean Fleet for Grenada. When the USSR Fleet came out of the Black Sea during Grenada, while Lebanon and Libya was also being stirred up, the carriers just had nuclear weapons for their air wings.

I am praying all day long for Yellowstone.. so much trouble you have caused.

Kinzer you write in same way in The NYT?

Stephen, US cannot stop interventios because these ones are the Military-Industrial Complex´s life. Ecoworld troubles will finish us as long as MIC works vs human beings.

Raegan invaded Grenada to change the subject the day after the. Marines were blown up in beruiet

Such small country yet big concern. USA operatives have way too much power.

Diplomatic letter in Pakistan case 2022.

Maybe little Grenada 🇬🇩 surely had WMD.

Samething in Afghanistan 2021. Taliban.

SURELY ONE DAY SOON THE CHICKENS WILL COME HOME TO ROOST

Hi does anyone knows the new name of the school of the Americans? I knew it was in Panama for a long time

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I agree with the speaker Stephen Kinzer and his views. I feel USA cannot go around questioning as its own foreign policy adopted these type of policies like invading a small country that it is rescuing and its going to bring some changes and then leaves the country in a much worse like Afghanistan, Iraq so back then when it invaded it was for its own domination. If USA goes into dominating all the areas in the world or new areas then it will get a retaliatory effect as USA I feel in its current position is unable to convince the world about the new changes that it intends to bring about in the world or nor does it has that power to impose itself if it imposes then it would face with a retaliatory effect by the powers of that region. So if it goes for more practical approach that how much can it convince and what is its area of dominance. So I feel that in the current situation USA can its pick its region of influence but cannot dominate or influence all the regions of the world. Just like India has influence in South Asia, China has influence in East Asia similarly Russia has influence in the east Europe so every major power has its region of influence so its better to leave their regions of influence to them. Just like USA had a problem with Taliban in Afghanistan back then similarly Russia has a problem with neo nazis so even Russia's concerns should be taken on par with the concerns that US has with Afghanistan. Another point by suppressing the major power of a region and then try make a neighboring country which is considerably small a major power then the existing major power would retaliate to that policy. So I feel a foreign policy which knows its regions of influence and other countries regions of influence then only one can reduce the conflict.

Wow that sounds familiar?

Oh and guess who owns that pipeline. Unocal......of course.

USA is trying to be friendly with india and this worries me to death. I request to Modi keep away from them.

How can this man say that the US does terrible things around the world when we intervene in other countries affairs. Then turn around and say that the American people have always been so sympathetic to any kind of suffering. The American people are supposed to be running this country aren't they? Isn't that what democracy is? the people running the country? Well you can't have it both ways budd either we do terrible things around the world or we are sympathetic to the plight of other people around the world.

wow we should have listen to this man 4 yr ago where doing this to Ukraine today and Ukraine dosent know are history so they fall for it .... history is repeating it self again .. get rid of NATO

did you all hear what he said that the US couldnt attack a formidable enemy🤣🤣🤣 cowards!

Long live Tulsi.

Everything he says is true but especially the part at 13:10 Our foreign policy does not change over time as the world changes. We ignore Africa. We hate China and Russia. We love the EU, NATO and Israel and we exploit South America. I'm simplifying ofc but the problem is that because it's been this way for so long, you can't even find politicians who could shape new foreign policy and relations. It's a bipartisan worldview that's outdated, blood-soaked and hypocritical in many ways. It also has seeped into the citizens minds so now the govt' doesn't even have to worry about ppl voting for a "radical" politician with a different world view. You get yelled out of left and right wing comment sections online for even mentioning this stuff. That's what bothers me most about the US. There really is no true change here and everyone just plugs their ears when you try to mention solutions. edit: 15:55 is EXACTLY what's happening in Iran right now. But it's also happening with Ukraine and the press. I've never seen so much sleek cleansing for a country to corrupt for NATO, the EU and has White Nationalists militants who wear literally Nazi stuff(where would you even find that? And they know the history and wear it anyway"). The press spent month after month selling the poor Ukrainian story to the American ppl and now NO ONE questions anything they do, from using old folks as shields in a nursing home(the UN did an official report on this so no it's nots Putins propaganda) to using Truck bombs and car bombs to kill innocents. I'm just sad that modern Americans are still duped like this. But I guess social media/internet was never going to improve ppls knowledge since most ppl watch and reshare things from the mainstream media(and it trickles back into social media). This is NOT giving a pass to the bad things Russia or Iran has done. It's just pointing out the US seizes on any opportunities to disrupt those countries simply because "they're our enemy!". Because we've spent decades doing character assassination of these countries, the citizen are already conditioned. When Iran says the US and Israel are taking advantage of the protests to amplify them, they are right. When Putin says the US and NATO have been dishonest and antagonistic, he's also right. They are never peace talks or diplomatic visits. Just weapons' and lies. Same thing is continually happening with Taiwan and China and it's sad to see. We never mind our own business and we lie to our citizens to keep them from voting or protesting against the govts interests.

So this guys agreement against American empire is that we don’t stick it out in places like Grenada?

Samething they did in 2020 !!!!

2 BARUK Chapters 24 through 30. speaks on these tribulations and plagues that are happening in the world today. Jeremiah Chapters 50, 51 and 52 Speaks on the Children of Yasharal (Israel returning to their land, but to also remove out of the land of Babylon (Modern day America) because plagues are going to be hitting America in the last day's. Earthquakes, Floods, Tornadoes, Hailstorms, Hurricanes, Mass Shootings, opioid addictions which leads to death, and Fires etc. and he's going to destroy America. Iran and Alot of Arab nations will surround America by sea all around and shoot at it with missles and bombs, who ever is president at that time with be panicking because they thought that they could beat Iran and its allies, but it backfired and America, Israel and whoever else are their allies will all be destroyed in Assyria (which is modern day Iraq). 2 Ezra Chapter 15 shows you more in detail what I just explained to you up top. Note* these are not my words these are the father's words Yahuah almighty. Alahiym (God) of Black Yasharaliy Ppl (whom the world calls Hebrew Israelites)... time is at hand, no one wants to read the Torah (Genesis through Dueteronomy) or read the whole entire Bible for truth. therefore America will go down, and nations will experience Famine and death and destruction. its all coming. P. s. if you keep calling on the Name of God your going to die anyway, this is not the father's name. Pay close attention!!! book of Enoch: Gadr'el= Gawd= God. "He seduced Chuah; and discovered to the children of men the instruments of death, the coat of mail, the shield, and the sword for slaughter; every instrument of death to the children of men. (ENOCH) 69:6 CEPHER Bible" now! go and read Genesis Chp 3 verses 1 through 6 and you'll make the connection. Jacob had a son by Leah and his name was Gad this is not the same Gad in the book of Enoch. And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad. Genesis 30:11 KJV This son has the same name as Satan's real name which is "Gawd" but we've been taught to pronounce it as "Gaad". when really his name is pronounced as "Gawd" Strongs Dictionary: H1409 - gad so, if we call his name "Gawd" then... who is actually God when we call upon him? you Ppl seriously need to do your homework.

How many coups has the US committed

The Ukrainian people are much more like us than the afghans,so drop that war and go head long into eastern Europe! Because we need people to watch us sell ad space!

Why Honduras? Does the US Have or want military bases there?

All this talk about the REAL Mark Twain but not much said. Will someone publish a proper book on this topic ?