Saturday, December 5, 2026 · 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Harvard Book Store — 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
Harvard Book Store welcomes Stephen Kinzer —award-winning writer and correspondent, and Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University—for a discussion of his new book, Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine. About Boiling Point From bestselling author Stephen Kinzer, the untold history of America’s secret seventy-five-year struggle in Ukraine that set the stage for today’s war. The war in Ukraine has dominated world headlines for nearly four years. It caught most people by surprise. Until the Russian invasion in February 2022, few Americans even knew where Ukraine was. Once the fighting began, however, support for its cause surged instinctively–Russia was the aggressor, Ukraine its victim. Yet the war did not explode out of nowhere. For seventy-five years, Moscow and Washington fought over Ukraine in the most sustained covert conflict in modern history. Both sides wanted to keep it hidden. They succeeded–until now. In this groundbreaking book, Stephen Kinzer tells that story for the first time. Beginning in the refugee camps of postwar Europe, where CIA officers recruited Ukrainians to infiltrate their homeland, it…