Overthrow Book Report

The book does provide a good understanding of the United States foreign policy. It explains how Americans believed that Foreign policy believed that it started in 2003 in Iraq when Bush was presidents. He provides great short stories where he describes the 19 foreign governments that were overthrown by America. However he does provide a summary and does provide the key points of each era in order to get a better understanding. Personally I was unaware of the history of foreign policy, by reading this book I gained a better understanding of the concept. The book Overthrow fits perfect into debates about the history of American foreign policy in many ways. The book talks about the many reasons why America intervened in foreign governments, issues that are still present in the 21 century. Current issues and what America is today, is due to the history that foreign policy made in the United States, the idea to extend America Culture, through trade, religion, economic wealth, and to extend our power. This book could lead to a debate of whether the United States did the right thing or not. The book Overthrow, Americas Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, by Stephan Kinzer, publisher: Holt, Henry & Company Inc, published in March 4, 2006, is a book that contains a number of short stories of how the …show more content…
The concept that reminded me was Manifest Destiny, the belief that America needs to expand. I think this book also explains this topic where America believed and still believes that they need to expand their civilization, their companies, trade, and their wealth. This also reminded me about the Mexican America War, where America had asked to buy part of Mexico and Mexico refused to sell it. Which made America furious and for this reason was led to a War where many lives could of been saved, and the Mexican American war is still a controversial debate in the 21