Overthrow

“Citizens concerned about foreign affairs must read this book. Stephen Kinzer’s crisp and thoughtful Overthrow undermines the myth of national innocence. Quite the contrary: history shows the United States as an interventionist busybody directed at regime change. We deposed fourteen foreign governments in hardly more than a century, some for good reasons, more for bad reasons, with most dubious long-term consequences.” –Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., author of The Age of Jackson

“Stephen Kinzer has a grim message for those critics of the Iraqi war who believe George W. Bush to be America’s most misguided, uninformed, and reckless president. Bush has had plenty of company in the past century–presidents who believe that America, as Kinzer tells us, has the right to wage war wherever it deems war necessary.” –Seymour M. Hersh, author of The Dark Side of Camelot

“Stephen Kinzer’s book is a jewel. After reading Overthrow, no American – not even President Bush – should any longer wonder ‘why they hate us.’ Overthrow is a narrative of all the times we’ve overthrown a foreign government in order to put in power puppets that are obedient to us. It is a tale of imperialism American-style, usually in the service of corporate interests, and as Kinzer points out, ‘No nation in modern history has done this so often, in so many places so far from its own shores.’ ” –Chalmers Johnson, author of Blowback

Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has reported from more than fifty countries on four continents. He served as The New York Times bureau chief in Turkey, Germany, and Nicaragua, and as the Boston Globe Latin America correspondent. His books include All the Shah’s Men, Crescent and Star, Blood of Brothers, and Poisoner in Chief. He is also the co-author of Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala. He lives in Chicago.

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