Best Selling Books by OLIVER STONE

Ranging from 1981 to 1997, the 15 conversations featured in this collection reveal a man frustrated by what he sees as the hypocrisies of American politics, of conservatism, and of the Hollywood film industry. Though the subjects of "Nixon, JFK, Born on the 4th of July, The Doors", and "Heaven and Earth" are rooted in the turbulent 1960s, Stone as interviewee and filmmaker is firmly entrenched in the present. Film stills.

The screenplays of Platoon--the most acclaimed movie about the Vietnam war--and of Salvador, a hard-hitting portrayal of the civil war in Salvador, also an Oscar nominee. Illustrated with movie stills.

WITH SUBSTANTIAL MATERIAL NOT INCLUDED IN THE DOCUMENTARY Academy Award winner Oliver Stone was able to secure what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Putin Interviews are culled from more than a dozen interviews with Putin over a two-year span—never before has the Russian leader spoken in such depth or at such length with a Western interviewer. No topics are off limits in the interviews, which first occurred during Stone’s trips to meet with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Moscow and most recently after the election of President Donald Trump. Prodded by Stone, Putin discusses relations between the United States and Russia, allegations of interference in the US election, and Russia’s involvement with conflicts in Syria, Ukraine, and elsewhere across the globe. Putin speaks about his rise to power and details his relationships with Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump. The exchanges are personal, provocative, and at times surreal. At one point, Stone asks, “Why did Russia hack the election?”; at another, Stone introduces him to Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 Cold War satire "Dr. Strangelove," which the two watch together. Stone has interviewed controversial world leaders before, including Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Benjamin Netanyahu. But The Putin Interviews, in its unmediated access to one of the most enigmatic and powerful men in the world, can only be compared to the series of conversations between David Frost and Richard Nixon we now refer to as “The Nixon Interviews” of 1977. The book will also contain references and sources that give readers a deeper understanding of the topics covered in the interviews and make for a more robust reading experience.

Companion to the documentary series of the same name.

A companion to Oliver Stone’s ten-part documentary series of the same name, this guide offers a people’s history of the American Empire: “a critical overview of US foreign policy…indispensable” (former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev); “brilliant, a masterpiece!” (Daniel Ellsberg); “Oliver Stone’s new book is as riveting, eye-opening, and thought-provoking as any history book you will ever read. It achieves what history, at its best, ought to do: presents a mountain of previously unknown facts that makes you question and re-examine many of your long-held assumptions about the most influential events” (Glenn Greenwald). In November 2012, Showtime debuted a ten-part documentary series based on Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick’s The Untold History of the United States. The book and documentary looked back at human events that, at the time, went underreported, but also crucially shaped America’s unique and complex history over the twentieth century. From the atomic bombing of Japan to the Cold War and fall of Communism, this concise version of the larger book is adapted for the general reader. Complete with poignant photos, arresting illustrations, and little-known documents, The Concise Untold History of the United States covers the rise of the American empire and national security state from the late nineteenth century through the Obama administration, putting it all together to show how deeply rooted the seemingly aberrant policies of the Bush-Cheney administration are in the nation’s past and why it has proven so difficult for Obama to change course. In this concise and indispensible guide, Kuznick and Stone (who Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills has called America’s own “Dostoevsky behind a camera”) challenge prevailing orthodoxies to reveal the dark truth about the rise and fall of American imperialism.

A generation after Watergate, Nixon remains the dominant American political figure. The Nixon Presidency, with its achievements and failures culminating with the Watergate scandal, will linger at the forefront of our political conscience. With hindsight, Richard Nixon appears to be a tragic figure of Shakespearean proportions, a man whose story is at once compelling and infuriating - and worthy of further examination. In this companion to the film, which includes the complete screenplay with full annotation, footnotes, documentation, a comprehensive bibliography, and an interview with Oliver Stone, Nixon emerges as a political leader governed by personal demons. In the tradition of the tragic hero, Nixon has left us a complicated legacy. This compilation, which includes essays by prominent figures associated with Nixon and Watergate, previously classified memos and documents from the Nixon White House, and transcripts of Nixon''s taped conversations in the Oval Office, sheds new light on Nixon, the man behind the powerful figure, and the political machine that catapulted him to the top.

The truth about America is revealed in this first of four volumes of the young readers’ edition of The Untold History of the United States, from Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, adapted by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. There is history as we know it. And there is history we should have known. Complete with photos, illustrations, and little-known documents, this first of four volumes covers crucial moments in American history from the late nineteenth century to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is not the kind of history taught in schools or normally presented on television or in popular movies. This riveting young readers’ edition challenges prevailing orthodoxies to reveal the dark reality about the rise and fall of the American empire for curious, budding historians who are hungry for the truth. Based on the latest archival findings and recently declassified information, this book will come as a surprise to the vast majority of students and their teachers—and that’s precisely why this edition is such a crucial counterpoint to today’s history textbooks. Adapted by Newbery Honor recipient Susan Campbell Bartoletti from the bestselling book and companion to the documentary The Untold History of the United States by Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone and renowned historian Peter Kuznick, this volume presents young readers with a powerful and provocative look at the past century of American imperialism.

These prominent filmmakers, “two of our most provocative and radical voices,” discuss American historical events that have been forgotten—or hidden (Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation). In working together on two challenging documentaries—South of the Border and the Untold History of the United States series for Showtime—filmmaker Oliver Stone engaged with author and filmmaker Tariq Ali in a probing, hard-hitting conversation on the politics of history. Their dialogue brings to light a number of forgotten—or deliberately buried—episodes of American history, from the US intervention against the Russian Revolution to the dynamic radicalism of the Wobblies; to how Henry Wallace’s nomination for the vice presidency was deliberately thwarted by Democratic Party machine insiders; to the ongoing close connections between various US presidents and the Saudi royal family. For Stone, an Academy Award–winner, and Ali, an acclaimed novelist and journalist—two of our most insightful observers on history and popular culture—no topic is sacred, no orthodoxy goes unchallenged.

A courageous look at a historic figure. From Oscar®-winner Oliver Stone, Snowden is a riveting personal look at one of the most polarizing figures of the twenty-first century, the man responsible for what has been described as the most far-reaching security breach in US intelligence history. This official motion picture screenplay edition, written by Kieran Fitzgerald and Oliver Stone, includes a foreword by David Talbot and dozens of photos from the film. In 2013, Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) quietly leaves his job at the NSA and flies to Hong Kong to meet with journalists Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto) and Ewen MacAskill (Tom Wilkinson), and filmmaker Laura Poitras (Melissa Leo) to reveal US government cyber surveillance programs of epic proportions. A top security contractor with virtuoso programming skills, Ed has discovered that a virtual mountain of data on digital communication is being assembled—not just from foreign governments and terror groups, but from ordinary Americans. Disillusioned with his work in the intelligence community, Snowden meticulously gathers hundreds of thousands of secret documents that will expose the full extent of the abuses. Leaving his longtime love Lindsay Mills (Shailene Woodley) behind, Ed finds the courage to act on his principles. Snowden opens the door on the untold story of Edward Snowden, examining the forces that turned a conservative young eager patriot into a historic whistleblower and posing provocative questions about which liberties we are willing to trade for protection.

Provides the complete script for JFK, which details the investigation into President Kennedy''s assassination, and includes reponses and comments about the film, and official reports and documentation

In this powerful and evocative memoir, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter, Oliver Stone, takes us right to the heart of what it''s like to make movies on the edge. In Chasing The Light he writes about his rarefied New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface. Before the international success of Platoon in 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts while taking miscellaneous jobs and driving taxis in New York, finally venturing westward to Los Angeles and a new life. Stone, now 73, recounts those formative years with vivid details of the high and low moments: we sit at the table in meetings with Al Pacino over Stone''s scripts for Scarface, Platoon, and Born on the Fourth of July; relive the harrowing demon of cocaine addiction following the failure of his first feature, The Hand (starring Michael Caine); experience his risky on-the-ground research of Miami drug cartels for Scarface; and see his stormy relationship with The Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino. We also learn of the breathless hustles to finance the acclaimed and divisive Salvador; and witness tensions behind the scenes of his first Academy Award-winning film, Midnight Express. The culmination of the book is the extraordinarily vivid recreation of filming Platoon in the depths of the Philippine jungle with Kevin Dillon, Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp et al, pushing himself, the crew and the young cast almost beyond breaking point. Written fearlessly, with intense detail and colour, Chasing the Light is a true insider''s story of Hollywood''s years of upheaval in the 1970s and ''80s, and Stone brings this period alive as only someone at the centre of the action truly can.

Discover America’s secrets in this second of two volumes of the young readers’ edition of The Untold History of the United States, from Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, adapted by Eric Singer. There is history as we know it. And there is history we should have known. Complete with poignant photos and little-known but vitally important stories, this second of two volumes traces how people around the world responded to the United States’s rise as a superpower from the end of World War II through an increasingly tense Cold War and, eventually, to the brink of nuclear annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is not the kind of history taught in schools or normally presented on television or in popular movies. This riveting young readers volume challenges prevailing orthodoxies to reveal uncomfortable realities about the US role in heightening Cold War tensions. It also humanizes the experiences of diverse people, at home and abroad, who yearned for a more just, equal, and compassionate world. This volume will come as a breath of fresh air for students, teachers, and budding young historians hungry for different perspectives—which makes it a crucial counterpoint to today’s history textbooks. Adapted by high school and university educator Eric S. Singer from the bestselling book and companion to the documentary The Untold History of the United States by Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone and renowned historian Peter Kuznick, this volume gives young readers a powerful and provocative look at the US role in the Cold War. It also provides a blueprint for those concerned with shaping a better and more equitable future for people across the world.

American anti-hero Oliver Stone joins the literary canon with this bold tale of an alienated youth who takes to the road on an odyssey to hell.

Poznejte odvrácenou tvář amerických dějin! Mysleli jste, že znáte americké dějiny? Tato kniha, bořící mýty o hodných a dobrotivých Spojených státech, vás přesvědčí o opaku. USA se v průběhu 20. století staly světovou velmocí s největší ekonomickou a vojenskou silou, inovátorem v oblasti technologií, centrem světových financí a pro mnohé kulturním a demokratickým vzorem. Ale podobně jako jiná historická impéria, i to americké bylo budováno agresivní politikou a válkami. Oscarový režisér Oliver Stone a renomovaný historik Peter Kuznick předkládají odvážně kritický přehled nejbolestnějších (a často také málo známých) aspektů amerických dějin – od anexe Havaje a invaze na Filipíny, podpory diktátorských režimů, zákulisní politiky a pletichaření během obou horkých světových válek a následující studené války až po období tzv. války proti terorismu po 11. září 2001 s vojenskými taženími na Blízkém a Středním východě. Tato jedinečná, často provokativní kniha nám ukazuje, jak často a daleko se během posledních sta let nechaly Spojené Státy odvést od proklamovaných demokratických hodnot. Ohlasy na bestseller New York Times Olivera Stonea a Petera Kuznicka THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES „Máme toho mnoho k přemýšlení. Takový je nezbytný pohled na věc. ... V sázce je, zda se Spojené státy rozhodnou stát policistou ‚Pax Americana‘, což je zaručený recept na katastrofu, anebo partnerem jiných národů na cestě k bezpečnější, spravedlivější a udržitelnější budoucnosti.“ – Exprezident Michail Gorbačov „Dílo plné odvahy, moudrosti a soucitu, které odolá zkoušce času. ... Nelítostná kritika i vášnivý chvalozpěv na Stoneovu a Kuznickovu vlast.“ – Velvyslanec Akbar Ahmed, autor knihy Th e Th istle and the Drone „Konečně kniha, která má kuráž zpochybnit obecně přijímaný pohled na nedávné americké dějiny. ... Tohle je kniha, která konečně pravdivě vypovídá o našem uplynulém století.“ – Bill Maher, autor bestselleru New York Times The New New Rules a moderátor Real Time na HBO „Odvážná revizionistická studie, která otřásá mnoha mýty ohledně zahraniční politiky. ... Udělejte si v knihovničce místo na tento přesvědčivý levičácký slabikář.“ – Douglas Brinkley, autor bestselleru New York Times Th e Great Deluge „Howard Zinn by byl z téhle knížky nadšen. ... Je to strhující čtení: brilantní, mistrovské dílo!“ – Daniel Ellsberg, autor amerického bestselleru Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers „Nejvýznamnější vyprávění dějin tohoto století.“ – Martin Sherwin, spoluautor knihy American Prometheus a nositel Pulitzerovy ceny „Poutavější, poučnější a provokativnější než jakákoli jiná kniha o dějinách, jakou jste kdy četli. ... Nedokážu ji slovy dost vynachválit.“ – Glenn Greenwald, Th e Guardian „Nesmírně provokativní... osvěžující.“ – Kirkus Reviews „Stone a Kuznick vzali takřka všechny závažné události z posledních devadesáti let americké zahraniční politiky a zkoncentrovali je do jediné knihy.“ – Jon Schwarz, MichaelMoore.com „Fenomenálně skvělá kniha. ... Poctivý pohled na historii, který bourá mýty a předkládá realitu, jakou by většina Američanů nečekala – a podkládá ji dobře zdokumentovanými fakty.“ – David Swanson, autor knihy War Is a Lie „Tohle si prostě musíte přečíst! Tato kniha otřásá tolika předpoklady, na nichž se zakládá americká zahraniční politika.“ – Bill Fletcher, BlackCommentator.com „Oliver Stone a Peter Kuznick dokázali něco, co by leckdo považoval na nemožné. Napsali politické dějiny Spojených států ve dvacátém století, dějiny přesně popisující, jak se Spojené státy proměnily v impérium na základě svých vědomých rozhodnutí a jak boj o zachování tohoto impéria pokračuje bez ohledu na to, která politická strana je právě u moci. Je to úchvatný počin.“ – Lloyd C. Gardner, autor knihy The Road to Tahrir Square „Provokativní vyvrácení nacionalistických mýtů, které jsou až příliš často prezentovány jako historie. Stone a Kuznick nám připomínají, že dokud Američané nedostanou odvahu postavit se k realitě čelem, zůstanou polapeni v pasti svých vlastních iluzí.“ – Lawrence S. Wittner, autor knihy One World of None: History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953

Jamais Vladimir Poutine ne s''était livré aussi librement que lors de ces cinquante heures d''entretiens avec le grand cinéaste Oliver Stone. Un huis clos absolument fascinant. Voici l''interview complète, où le maître du Kremlin aborde sa vie personnelle, revenant sur son parcours, son enfance et sa vie de famille, mais où il nous révèle également sa vision sur des sujets aussi variés et brûlants que les relations russo-américaines, le conflit syrien, la liberté de la presse ou le traitement des homosexuels dans son pays. Au-delà des questions de société ou des enjeux géopolitiques, ce sont les secrets d''une personnalité surprenante que Vladimir Poutine dévoile pour la première fois au réalisateur de Platoon. Un document unique.

Manipulativ, gewaltverherrlichend, zu politisch oder nicht politisch genug – den Filmen von Meisterregisseur Oliver Stone wurde schon vieles vorgeworfen, aber kalt ließen sie niemanden. Nun erzählt der kontroverse Oscar-Preisträger in seiner Biografie erstmals von seiner Kindheit in New York, dem Vietnamkrieg, aus dem er verwundet zurückkehrte, seiner Zeit als Taxifahrer, seinen Kämpfen und Triumphen und den Dreharbeiten zu Filmen wie Wallstreet, Natural Born Killers und Scarface. Er gewährt intime Einblicke in seine Karriere, insbesondere in das aufregende und verrückte Leben im Hollywood der 1970er- und 1980er-Jahre.

Este é um arquivo histórico importantíssimo e raro que o leitor terá a oportunidade de conhecer a partir da curiosidade e do brilhante trabalho desta inusitada dupla de autores. A obra cobre um período de mais de 100 anos de história mundial, é fruto de uma profunda pesquisa por cinco anos, em que os autores se debruçaram sobre arquivos da época, e conferiam dados de fontes à exaustão. O resultado mostra que tudo está conectado: Dos governos Reagan e Eisenhower a todo o conceito da Segunda Guerra Mundial; o real significado da batalha contra o nazismo; o desenvolvimento (e a alimentação) da guerra fria; os diversos momentos em que os Estados Unidos agiram, na verdade, como agressores; O Macarthismo e a tradição de espionar toda gente, desde pessoas comuns à líderes mundiais; o modus operandi em que se inserem os conflitos no Iraque, Teerã, o trabalho da CIA e tantos outros eventos que, segundo documentos, tiveram como meta criar uma guerra global ao terror e dividir o mundo.

«Este libro destapa las vergüenzas de Estados Unidos en los últimos cien años».Bill Maher Oliver Stone, ganador de un Óscar de la Academia, y el historiador Peter Kuznick nos desvelan la otra cara de la historia de Estados Unidosanalizando los grandes acontecimientos que desde la Guerra de Secesión y hasta la actualidad han marcado el «siglo americano» a través de un prisma crítico y constructivo. El resultado es un libro que cuestiona el discurso oficial transmitido dentro y fuera de las fronteras de la superpotencia —centrándose en los errores porque los grandes aciertos ya han sido glorificados— que han marcado la historia de Estados Unidos y, por tanto, del mundo. La Primera Guerra Mundial, el New Deal, la bomba atómica, el asesinato de Kennedy, la carrera armamentística de Reagan, el 11-S, la llegada de Obama al poder… son solo algunos de los importantes hitos que los autores revisitan y examinan. Porque tal y como ellos mismos afirman en la introducción: «Somos esclavos de nuestra concepción del pasado y rara vez nos damos cuenta de hasta qué punto esa forma de entender la historia determina nuestro comportamiento aquí y ahora. La comprensión de la historia define nuestra idea de lo concebible, de lo realizable». «Fascinante, reveladora. A la altura de la mejor historiografía contemporánea. No me canso de ensalzarla y recomendar su lectura». Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian «Un libro provocador y lleno de fuerza». Kirkus Reviews «Una obra llena de coraje, sabiduría y compasión que superará la prueba del tiempo. Un juicio feroz y un himno apasionado de los autores a su patria». Akbar Ahmed, alto comisionado para Pakistán, autor de The Thistle and the Drone «Oliver Stone y Peter Kuznick nos ofrecen una visión crítica de la política exterior norteamericana de las últimas décadas. Está en juego la posibilidad de que Estados Unidos sea el gendarme de la Pax Americana, es decir, la receta definitiva para el desastre, o se asocie con otras naciones para labrar un futuro más justo, seguro y sostenible». Mijaíl Gorbachov «Un gran libro, una obra extraordinaria, un relato honrado que desmonta muchos mitos y nos descubre una realidad sorprendente para la mayoría y documentándola con hechos». David Swanson, autor de War is a Lie «El análisis más completo e incisivo de la política exterior estadounidense desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial». Allan Lichtman, autor de White Protestant Nation