I recommend "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq," a new book by Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times correspondent in Turkey, Germany and Nicaragua.

While the story of US interference and intervention in Cuba, the Philippines, Guatamala, Chile, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and other countries is not new, the linkage to Hawaii is startling.

Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown because business interests wanted it, and they were aided and abetted by the White House, American diplomats and American troops. This pattern was repeated over the years. Kinzer writes that no nation has arranged to depose of so many foreign leaders in so many places so far from its own shores than the United States in modern history.

Alas, Hawaii showed the way it could be done.