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Article: A lesson in who we are.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- June 30, 2006
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I took some time off recently and when I returned I had a message from a radio station asking if I'd agree to give some suggestions for summer reading. I was too late in getting to the message to make the show, but I was ready with a suggestion: Steven Kinzer's Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. We'll have more on his book in a later issue, but I'll take the opportunity here to recommend it
I first encountered Kinzer in print in 1981, the year I first traveled to Guatemala. He is coauthor of the book Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, a detailed account of the CIA overthrow of Guatemala's democratically ...