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Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies, H)

by Stephen Schlesinger

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ISBN13: 9780674019300
ISBN10: 067401930x
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Bitter Fruitis a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.

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and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.

About the Author

Stephen Schlesinger is Director of the World Policy Institute.Stephen Kinzer is cultural correspondent for The New York Times.John H. Coatsworth is Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.

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ISBN:
9780674019300
Subtitle:
The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
Foreword:
Nuccio, Richard A.
Foreword:
Nuccio, Richard A.
Author:
Kinzer, Stephen
Author:
Schlesinger, Stephen
Author:
Coatsworth, John H.
Author:
Nuccio, Richard A.
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Location:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Subject:
History
Subject:
United states
Subject:
United States - 20th Century
Subject:
Central America
Subject:
United States - 20th Century/50s
Subject:
International Relations - General
Subject:
Latin America - Central America
Subject:
United Fruit Company
Subject:
United States Foreign relations Guatemala.
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Revised and Exp
Series:
David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies, H
Series Volume:
4
Publication Date:
October 2005
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
330
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in

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