About the Author

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.

Reviews

"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