Stephen Kinzer is the author of "Reset," "Overthrow," "All the Shah's Men," "Crescent and Star," and numerous other books. An award-winning foreign correspondent, he served as "The New York Times's" bureau chief in Turkey, Germany, and Nicaragua and as "The Boston Globe's" Latin America correspondent. He teaches international relations at Boston University and is a frequent contributor to "The New York Review of Books" and a columnist for "The Guardian." He lives in Boston. Visit Stephen Kinzer's website at www.StephenKinzer.com.
"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.
"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
"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
" 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.
" 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
" 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
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