Then and Now: How the World Has Changed since WWII

by Tad Szulc

Szulc details the hopes of the sixty years following the beginning of World W ar II--the end of political oppression, widespread world hunger, and war--with the reality: continuing political oppression, the Vietnam War, the crises in world hunger. An usual thesis on the state of the world entering the 21st century.

Genres: History

515 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1990

About the author

Tadeusz Witold Szulc was an author and foreign correspondent for The New York Times from 1953 to 1972

Szulc is credited with breaking the story of the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Szulc was born in Warsaw, Poland, the son of Seweryn and Janina Baruch Szulc.

He attended Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland.

In 1940 he emigrated from Poland to join his family in Brazil; it had left Poland in the mid-1930s.

In Brazil, he studied at the University of Brazil, but in 1945, he abandoned his studies to work as a reporter for the Associated Press in Rio de Janeiro.

In 1947 he moved from Brazil to New York City, and in 1954, he became a US citizen.

His emigration had been sponsored by United States Ambassador John Cooper Wiley, who was married to his aunt.

In 2001, Szulc died of cancer at his home, in Washington, D.C.