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Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Piero Gleijeses
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:464
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
Category/GenreRevolutions, uprisings and rebellions
ISBN/Barcode 9780691025568
ClassificationsDewey:327.728107309044
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 17 August 1992
Publication Country United States

Description

The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "convenient villain." "Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, by a CIA-orchestrated coup."--Foreign Affairs "Piero Gleijeses offers a historical road map that may serve as a guide for future generations...[Readers] will come away with an understanding of the foundation of a great historical tragedy."--Saul Landau, The Progressive "[Gleijeses's] academic rigor does not prevent him from creating an accessible, lucid, almost journalistic account of an episode whose tragic consequences still reverberate."--Paul Kantz, Commonweal