NOW! PRAISE FROM THE CRITICS FOR "OVERTHROW - AMERICA'S CENTURY OF REGIME CHANGE FROM HAWAI`I TO IRAQ"
"A fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments—not always to its own benefit.
"Regime change" did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but has been an integral part of U.S. foreign policy for more than one hundred years.
Starting with the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 and continuing through the Spanish-American War and the Cold War and into our own time, the United States has not hesitated to overthrow governments that stood in the way of its political and economic goals....
...America had first stretched its imperial wings by seizing Hawaii from its rightful owners at the behest of a handful of sugar barons...."
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