Author of "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change..." on NPR now!

[Up2Late]

The audio from the interview is also available on the Fresh Air web site, here's the link

Author Kinzer Charts 'Century of Regime Change'

Listen to this story...(at link above)

Fresh Air from WHYY, April 5, 2006 · Stephen Kinzer has had a peripatetic tenure at The New York Times. He has reported from more than 50 countries and served as the paper's bureau chief in Turkey, Germany and Nicaragua.

He employs that far-flung perspective to examine America's history of regime change in his new book, Overthrow.

Though Iraq is the most recent example of the United States exerting its power to alter another country's leadership, Kinzer notes that it is certainly not the first. He notes that Iraq "was the culmination of a 110-year period during which Americans overthrew fourteen governments that displeased them for various ideological, political, and economic reasons." Kinzer discusses the book with Terry Gross.
An Excerpt of 'Overthrow' is also at the link below:

<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5325069>

[400Years]

1. has anybody read this?

[Up2Late]

3. I haven't yet, but this is one I'm definitely going to get it!

This is one of the least known subjects in this country.

When I meet people from other country's, I alway feel like an complete idiot, because they DO know this aspect of American History, but I was never taught any of this in school.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. And we get all smug and superior because the Japanese

schools gloss over some aspects of Japanese WW2 history.

In the immortal words of Rummy, (paraphrased) there are things we know, there are things we don't know, there are things we know we don't know, and there are things we don't know we don't know.

So much of our history seems to be in that last catagory.

[etherealtruth]

2. It was great ....

...At least what I heard of it. (I was out running errands at lunch). I can't wait to read his book.

[Up2Late]

5. kick n/t

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