The main goal of a historian is to show the facets of continuity and evolution over time of his object of study. Alongside the concise historian, Kinzer establishes his ability to tell history and tell stories. In his book The Overthrow, he uses oral documents and personal communications as his primary sources. He uses quotes from documents and interviews to tell the story of each intervention. Kinzer depicts characters, such as presidents and administrators, in a more human light than their usual opaque appearance. In his writings, historical figures are not only defined as demonized, but rather depicted as human due to certain circumstances that encouraged them to make the decisions they did. Kinzer is in no way cautious about where he wants to take the reader: “The invasion of Iraq in 2003,” he writes in the second paragraph of the introduction, “was not an isolated episode . period of one year during which the Americans overthrew fourteen governments that they displeased for various ideological, political and economic reasons. Kinzer proclaims that operations, including in Iraq, were considered successful, with the vast majority having unintended consequences. This statement is clear in the history of Hawaii, Cuba, the Philippines, Nicaragua, Honduras, Iran, Guatemala, South Vietnam, Chile, Panama, Afghanistan and the 'Iraq. Kinzer's argument strengthens when he mentions Afghanistan and Iraq. While The Overthrow shows the continuity of American participation in foreign regime changes, the book is divided into three chronological parts: the imperial era, covert action and invasion, each of which will be analyzed in more detail in the following lines . Kinzer argues that each party...... middle of paper...... strategies, the CIA organizes uprisings against our unwanted leader. As with previous reversals, Cold War regime changes occurred “only when economic interests coincided with ideological interests.” The CIA is a dogmatic tool used, but seen as an independent, immoral and dishonorable force during the Cold War, which led the regime in the fight against civil liberties and insurgency. Regarding the CIA, Kinzer highlights the similarities between the event and the CIA's role in the Chilean coup against Salvador Allende in 1973. The CIA played by the rules and did what they were told said even when staff warned against intervention. . Not only was the brutal dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet proof of this sentiment, but when the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence investigated the coup a few years later, it found President Nixon, not the CIA, the main responsible..