A foreign affairs journalist for 60 years, Jonathan Power has traveled all over the world, writing, besides his column in the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times, long articles for Encounter and Prospect magazines, eight books on foreign affairs and many TV and radio documentaries, mainly for the BBC, one of which won the silver medal at the Venice Film Festival. Power has probably been published on the opinion pages of theprincipal US newspapers more than any other European. He has interviewed over 70 of the world's most famous and influential presidents, prime ministers, and political and literary icons including Ignacio Lula da Silva, Indira Gandhi, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Georgi Arbatov, Sonia Gandhi, Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, Olusegun Obasanjo, Julius Nyerere, James Baldwin, Andy Young, Jesse Jackson, Manmohan Singh and Paul McCartney. Notably, Power was the first journalist to report at length in English on the trafficking of African migrants across the Sahara and into France. This inspired his first novel, "e;The Human Flow"e;- a love story set against the backdrop of the migrant flow from West Africa to Paris and London. In addition to his writing, Power has consulted for organizations such as the Aspen Institute, the International Red Cross, the World Council of Churches, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, UNICEF, and the Catholic Church's Commission for Justice and Peace in England and Wales.
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When are you going to get a proper job? Sixty Years in Journalism
The World Was My Oyster
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The World Was My Oyster
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 : I and Me
- Chapter 2 : The Peace Women—A Report from Ireland
- Chapter 3 : Return to Tanzania
- Chapter 4 : My long-time friend, Nigeria’s Big Man
- Chapter 5 : My life-long comrade, Valeria the nun, and her friends, Lula and the Cardinal, and big change in Brazil
- Chapter 6 : Guatemala—No political prisoners, only political murders
- Chapter 7 : My friend “Roots”— Searching for the Bad Boys in the Caribbean Mountains
- Chapter 8 : Third Way in India — the first interview with the new prime minister, a quiet conversation with Sonia Gandhi and a few words on Kashmir
- Chapter 9 : Penetrating the Thoughts of Pakistan’s Military President
- Chapter 10 : Oh! Kolkata
- Chapter 11 : The coming death of Jimmy Carter
- Chapter 12 : My Search for the Swedish Soul
- Chapter 13 : A Political Paul
- Chapter 14 : The Press needs a big Reformation
- Chapter 15 : My most important two hour interviews