5 stars out of 5.
Overthrow is a very well written book by Stephen Kinzer that covers slightly more than 100 years of history dealing with US involvement in overthrowing foreign governments. This is the history they don't teach you in schools. Beginning in Hawaii and covering such exotic locales as Cuba, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Iran, Iraq, Grenada, Guatamala, Chile, Honduras, Vietnam, Puerto Rico and Panama. Each chapter covers a different country and is a lively read. It is very interesting to see the different motives and different strategies used over the last 100+ years. And of course, it puts current events in much better perspective if you know the last 100 years of history behind them.
Also interesting is "All the Shah's Men" which is a more indepth look at the early 1950s coup in Iran, which the US led. This leads to the unfortunate 1979 revolt that brought Iran under Islamic rule and under which it remains today.
I highly recommend this book to anyone. It's a nice one to just pick up and read a chapter and think "I had no idea that was why [insert country] is like that today".
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Good point, though sometimes it's hard to arrive to definite conclusions
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