Enjoyable read,  though the blogosphere disputes some of Perkin’s stories as too good to be true.  Even if he took poetic license with certain details, it’s pretty evident that there’s a kernel of truth to his work. Either way, the historical accounts of US corporate involvement oversees is very well done. Perkins explains the modern method of empire as what he calls the  “Corporatocracy”.  Beginning with Kermit Roosevelt Jr. and the Shah of Iran all the way up to Haliburton in Iraq.