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William Blum
Sign in to saveAmerican author and historian (1933–2018)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- March 6, 1933 Brooklyn, New York US
- Died
- December 9, 2018 Arlington, Virginia, US
- Works
- 6
Top works
- American Voices Of Dissent
- Cia
- The CIA, a forgotten history
- Americas Deadliest Export Democracy The Truth About Us Foreign Policy And Everything Else
- L'Etat voyou
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Film & TV
Known for
- Standing Army — Self2010
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8
- Total plays
- 16
William Blum (born 1933) is an American author, historian, and critic of United States foreign policy. He studied accounting in college. Later he had a low-level computer-related position at the United States Department of State in the mid-1960s. Initially an anti-communist with dreams of becoming a foreign service officer, he said he became disillusioned by the Vietnam War. He lives in Long Beach, New York. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/William+Blum">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Official website
William Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, because of his opposition to what the United States was doing in Vietnam. His book on U.S. foreign policy, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, first published in 1995 and updated since, has received international acclaim. Noam Chomsky called it “far and away the best book on the topic.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Family name
- Blum
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- Arlington County
- Occupation
- journalist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- foreign policy
- Official website
- williamblum.org
- Image
- NLN William Blum.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1933-03-06
- date of death
- 2018-12-09
- name in native language
- William Blum
- cause of death
- kidney failure
- Commons category
- William Blum
- social media followers
- 4138
- birth name
- William Henry Blum
- manner of death
- natural causes
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