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Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
Bitter Fruit The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
Author: Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer
Bitter Fruit recounts in telling detail the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. The 1982 book has become a classic, a textbook case study of Cold War meddling that succeeded only to condemn Guatemala to decades of military dictatorship. The authors make extensive use of U.S. gov...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674075900
ISBN-10: 0674075900
Publication Date: 8/1999
Pages: 331
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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