William Blum

Person · Open Library

Born

March 6, 1933 Brooklyn, New York US

Died

December 9, 2018 Arlington, Virginia, US

Works

6

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Active from

1954

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

8

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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>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

   · 1996 · cited 62,861x

2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 44,803x

3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 39,507x

4. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,939x

5. Preparation of Graphitic Oxide

   · 1958 · cited 28,680x

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Quotes

• “For more than 70 years, the United States convinced much of the world that .. it somehow needed the United States to save it from communist darkness. "Just buy our weapons," said Washington, "let our military and our corporations roam freely across your land, and give us veto power over who your leaders will be, and we'll protect you."”
• “There have also been cases where the United States, while (perhaps) not interfering in the election process, was, however, involved in overthrowing a democratically-elected government, such as in Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, the Congo 1960, Ecuador 1961, Bolivia 1964, Greece 1967, and Fiji 1987.”

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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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