Jon Wiener is a contributing editor to The Nation and a professor of history at the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America, Historians in Trouble, Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files, and Professors, Politics and Pop, and the editor (with Tom Hayden) of Conspiracy in the Streets.
ARTICLES FEATURING JON
The Fire and the Fizzle
Jerald Podair reviews "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties," a new history from Mike Davis and Jon Wiener....
How America Didn’t Win the Cold War (A Travelogue)
IN THE EUPHORIC FIRST WEEKS after the fall of the Berlin Wall, East German protesters who had risked everything to overthrow ...
Gore Vidal Redux
GORE VIDAL IS OFTEN TOUTED, particularly for this slight collection of four interviews, as the best conversationalist since Oscar Wilde. Let&...
