Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer (Unabridged)
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Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
by Stephen Kinzer; read by Michael Prichard
Tantor Media (May 29, 2006)
Unabridged (Length: 15 hrs., 8 mins.)
Orig. Media: Audio CD
©2006 Stephen Kinzer; 2006 Tantor Media, Inc.
ISBN-10: 1400102391; ASIN: B007F82B6Q
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"Detailed, passionate and convincing . . . [with] the pace and grip of a good thriller." --THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
TABLE OF CONTENTS . . .
I. OPENING CREDITS (00:32) - [PHOTO: Author Stephen Kinzer (left) & Narrator Michael Prichard]
II. INTRODUCTION (15:32) - [PHOTO: Cartoon of a military coup]
PART ONE: THE IMPERIAL ERA [TOTAL LENGTH: 4:55:41]
01. A Hell of a Time Up at the Palace (Hawaii, 1893) (1:03:47)
[PHOTO: USS Boston's landing force on duty at the Arlington Hotel in Honolulu]
02. Bound for Goo-Goo Land (Cuba/Philippines, 1898) (1:14:21)
[PHOTO - Jose? Marti? (left) & Emlio Aguinaldo--fathers of Cuban & Philippine independence]
03. From a Whorehouse to a White House (Nicaragua/Honduras, 1909) (1:04:12)
[PHOTO: Nicaragua Volcano stamp / Nicaraguan Pres. José Santos Zelaya]
04. A Break in the History of the World (Results of early American imperialism) (1:33:21)
[PHOTO - T.R. and the 'Great White Fleet']
PART TWO: COVERT ACTION [TOTAL LENGTH: 5:04:25]
05. Despotism and Godless Terrorrism (Iran, 1953) (51:33)
[PHOTO: Mohammad Mosaddegh, PM of Iran - 'Time' 1951 Man of the Year cover]
06. Get Rid of This Stinker (Guatemala, 1954) (53:13)
[PHOTO: Guatemalan Pres. Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán]
07. Not the Preferred Way to Commit Suicide (Saigon, 1963) (1:03:16)
[PHOTO: The body of Ngo Dinh Diem]
08. We're Going to Smash Him (Chile, 1970) (1:12:24)
[PHOTO: Attack on La Moneda Palace / Salvador Allende (left) & Augusto Pinochet]
09. A Graveyard Smell (Results of American-backed coups) (1:03:59)
[PHOTO: C.I.A. headquarters at Langley, VA]
PART THREE: INVASIONS [TOTAL LENGTH: 4:52:38]
10. Our Days of Weakness Are Over (Grenada, 1983) (54:12)
[PHOTO: Invasion of Grenada / Ronald Reagan & Maurice Bishop]
11. You're No Good (Panama, 1989) (59:48)
[PHOTO: Operation "Just Cause" / Manuel Noriega after his surrender]
12. They Will Have Flies Walking Across Their Eyeballs (Afghanistan, 2002) (1:00:42)
[PHOTO: Afghanistan War--Osama bin Laden, bottom-middle]
13. Thunder Run (Iraq, 2003) (52:23)
[PHOTO: Iraq War--Saddam Hussein, bottom-right]
14. Catastrophic Success (Results of recent American invasions) (1:05:33)
[PHOTO: Pres. Bush in the Treaty Room--McKinley painting in background]
PART 1 - 5:11:45 (Incl. Opening Credits & Intro)
PART 2 - 5:04:25
PART 3 - 4:52:38
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TOTAL - 15:08:48
SUMMARY . . .
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. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 is the latest, though perhaps not the last, example of the dangers inherent in these operations.In Overthrow, Stephen Kinzer tells the stories of the audacious politicians, spies, military commanders, and business executives who took it upon themselves to depose monarchs, presidents, and prime ministers. He also shows that the U.S. government has often pursued these operations without understanding the countries involved; as a result, many of them have had disastrous long-term consequences.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR . . .
Stephen Kinzer is a United States author and newspaper reporter. He is a veteran New York Times correspondent who has reported from more than fifty countries on five continents. During the 1980s he covered revolution and social upheaval in Central America. In 1990, he was promoted to bureau chief of the Berlin bureau and covered the growth of Eastern and Central Europe as they emerged from Soviet rule. He was also New York Times bureau chief in Istanbul (Turkey) from 1996 to 2000. He currently teaches journalism and United States foreign policy at Northwestern University.
Kinzer has written several non-fiction books about Turkey, Central America, Iran, the US overthrow of foreign governments from the late 19th century to the present and, most recently, about Rwanda's recovery from genocide. He has spoken out widely against a potential U.S. attack on Iran, warning that it would destroy the pro-US sentiment that has become widespread among the Iranian populace under the repressive Islamic regime. He is a fierce opponent of US foreign policy toward Latin America. In a 2010 interview with Imagineer Magazine, he stated:
Quote:"The effects of U.S. intervention in Latin America have been overwhelming negative. They have had the effect of reinforcing brutal and unjust social systems and crushing people who are fighting for what we would actually call ?American values.? In many cases, if you take Chile, Guatemala, or Honduras for examples, we actually overthrew governments that had principles similar to ours and replaced those democratic, quasi-democratic, or nationalist leaders with people who detest everything the United States stands for."
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ABOUT THE READER . . .
Michael Prichard has played several thousand characters during his career. While he has been seen performing over 100 of them in theater and film, Michael is primarily heard, having recorded over 450 full-length books. During his career as a one-man repertory company, he has recorded many series with running characters---including the complete Travis McGee adventures by John D. MacDonald, the complete Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout, the Dirk Pitt adventures by Clive Cussler, and more than a dozen other series by masters of suspense ranging from Georges Simenon and Dashiell Hammett to Robert B. Parker and Tom Clancy---as well as series by such greats as Mark Twain, Herman Wouk, John Cheever, and John Updike. He has won AudioFile Earphones Awards for three of his nonfiction recordings, and SmartMoney magazine named him one of the Top Ten Golden Voices, an asset he developed as a boy singing at the wheel of a tractor on his family's farm. Jesuits taught him Latin, Greek, and French, and he earned his M.F.A. in theater from the University of Southern California. In addition to narrating, he works at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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