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Peter Kuznick

(1948) Historian

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Peter Kuznick is a historian, best known for Untold History of the United States.

Quick Facts About Peter Kuznick

Born: January 1, 1948
Profession: Historian
Notable works: Untold History of the United States

About Peter Kuznick

The Untold History of the United States is a 2012 documentary television series created, directed, produced, and narrated by Oliver Stone about the reasons behind the Cold War, the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, and changes in America's global role since the fall of Communism.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Peter Kuznick

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

Certain

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We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

Country

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People think in narrow, constrained, constipated ways about the world. They can't imagine that the world could be different. Not like the…

Better world

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China is doing a lot of things right that the United States is doing wrong.

China

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We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time…

Conflict

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A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national…

American imperialism

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People [in US] are starting to rethink this idea of empire, this idea of the United States being this superpower, the hegemon,…

Empires

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