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Overthrow, America's Century of Regime Change

Overthrow, America's Century of Regime Change VIDEO: "Overthrow, America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
The recent of Saddam Hussein may have turned 'regime change' into a contemporary buzzword, but it's been a tactic of American foreign policy for more than 110 years. Beginning with the ouster of Hawaii's monarchy in 1893, Kinzer runs through the foreign governments the U.S. has had a hand in toppling
Stephen Kinzer presents his most recent book Overthrow, America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.

Mr. Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times who has reported from more than fifty countries on four continents. He has served as the paper's bureau chief in Turkey, Germany and Nicaragua."

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