Matthew Stevenson

Matthew Stevenson is the author of many books, including Reading the Rails, Appalachia Spring, andThe Revolution as a Dinner Party, about China throughout its turbulent twentieth century. His most recent books are Biking with Bismarck and Our Man in Iran. Out now: Donald Trump’s Circus Maximus and Joe Biden’s Excellent Adventure, about the 2016 and 2020 elections.

Pacific Odyssey: Volcanic Rabaul and Admiral Yamamotto’s Bunker

Pacific Odyssey: Puddle Jumping in New Britain

Pacific Odyssey: Goodenough Island in MacArthur’s Wake

Pacific Odyssey: To Papua New Guinea and Milne Bay

Pacific Odyssey: Along the Route of the Bataan Death March

Pacific Odyssey: Corregidor’s Iconography of Empire

A Pacific Odyssey: Around General MacArthur’s Manila Stage Set

Pacific Odyssey: the Manila Presidential Palace

Across the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the Borders Are In Men’s Minds

Across the Troubles in Northern Ireland: Bloody Sunday, Revisited

Across the Troubles in Northern Ireland: From the Jacobite Rising to the Mountbatten Bombing

Across the Troubles in Northern Ireland: the Great Famine

Across the Troubles in Northern Ireland

Going Home Again to Trump’s America: the New York Emirate on a Bike

Going Home Again to Trump’s America: Gettysburg to Newark

Coming Home to Trump’s America: Annapolis to DC

Going Home Again to Trump’s America

Why Vietnam Still Matters: the Great American End and Whitewash in Saigon

Why Vietnam Still Matters: Saigon’s and Frank Snepp’s “Decent Interval”

Why Vietnam Still Matters: The Australians Tangle With Victor Charles in the Battle of Long Tan

Why Vietnam Still Matters: Was Khe Sanh a Win or a Loss?

Why Vietnam Still Matters: Bernard Fall Dies on the Street Without Joy

Why Vietnam Still Matters: In Search of Its Bright Shining Lie

Why Vietnam Still Matters: JFK Should Have Known Better

Why Vietnam Still Matters: an American Reckoning

Into Africa: Lost on the ANC Road to Soweto

Into Africa: Across the Boer Heartland to Pretoria

Into Africa: Shadows of War Over Mafeking and the Making of Winston Churchill

Into Africa: Tracking Into Botswana With Conrad and Casanova

Into Africa: Mugabe’s Zimbabwe–the Fear and the Fiat Money

Into Africa: Who Killed Hammarskjöld?

Into Africa: The Tanzania-Zambia Train to Nowhere

Into Africa: China Uber Alles

Into Africa: Robert Redford’s Big Game in Nairobi

Into Africa: From the Red Sea to Nairobi

An Alger Hiss Memoir

A Trumpworld Homecoming: From Kansas City and City to New York

What’s Wrong With Trump’s America? Across Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas

Travels in Trump’s America: Memphis, Little Rock, Fayetteville and Bentonville

Travels in Trump’s America: North Carolina and Tennessee

Travels Around Trump’s America

As the Trump World Turns

Down and Out in London and Paris With Macron, May, Trump and Gatsby

Letter From Saigon

Letter From Phnom Penh

Trump’s Excellent Russian Adventure

Obama’s Book Deal: the $60 Million Selfie

The Parallax View of Donald Trump

Is Trump the Worst President Ever?

Sex and the Presidential City