By Piero Gleijeses
The main thorough account but to be had of a revolution that observed the 1st real agrarian reform in vital the United States, this ebook is usually a penetrating research of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no different principal American nation used to be U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, fees Piero Gleijeses. but he indicates that the intervention will be blamed on no unmarried "convenient villain."
"Extensively researched and written with conviction and keenness, this learn analyzes the background and downfall of what turns out on reflection to were Guatemala's top executive, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, via a CIA-orchestrated coup."--Foreign Affairs
"Piero Gleijeses deals a historic street map which may function a consultant for destiny generations. . . . [Readers] will come away with an knowing of the basis of an outstanding ancient tragedy."--Saul Landau, The Progressive
"[Gleijeses's] educational rigor doesn't hinder him from developing an available, lucid, nearly journalistic account of an episode whose tragic effects nonetheless reverberate.--Paul Kantz, Commonweal
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