The Jakarta Method

I think the last time I was so shocked about untaught history was reading King Leopold's Ghost.

This is an exhaustively researched look at American foreign policy in the Third World post WWII into and through the Cold War. As evinced by the title, Indonesia and the horrific coup eliminating Sukarno are the focus. The methods by which the CIA influenced this coup and used it as a model for orchestrating dozens of other coups across SE Asia, Central, and South America round out the second half. This book is hugely enhanced by all the first hand testimony Bevins collected.

Highly, depressingly recommended.