"[This book] covers an important history. It also provides an important position on that history, addressing several different audiences and providing new information to each in riveting prose. It combines many specialists'' knowledge about how the Cold War played out in different parts of Latin America with new and previously unknown material about how Cold War tactics unfolded in Guatemala."
(Carol A. Smith American Historical Review )
"This work admirably explains the process in which hopes of democracy were brutally repressed in Guatemala and its people experienced a civil war lasting for half a century."
(Joseph Smith International History Review )
"A richly detailed, humane, and passionately subversive portrait of inspiring reformers tragically redefined by the Cold War as enemies of the state."
(Alan McPherson Journal of American History )
"This book is a searing indictment of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. Grandin makes abundantly clear that the U.S. government did not support democracy in Latin America; on the contrary, it thwarted it every step of the way. . . . [The] book contributes to our understanding of who the victims were, why they fought, and why they were trragically killed."
(Margaret Power Science & Society )
“Mounting the most powerful case to date against the know-nothing triumphalism of Cold War historians and the smug complacency of the American media, Grandin’s book also performs a modest act of restorative justice: it allows Guatemalans to tell their own stories in their own words. In a series of remarkable biographies Grandin shows how men and women made high politics and high politics made them, demonstrating that the Cold War was waged not only in the airy game rooms of nuclear strategists but ‘in the closed quarters of family, sex, and community.’”—Corey Robin, London Review of Books
(Corey Robin London Review of Books )
"What is new and pathbreaking is the way Grandin links local history and local lives to this struggle for democracy and to the violence that confronted that dream. Through careful archival work in national and local collections and, most especially, oral testimony from a diverse range of local participants, Grandin gives us a social history of the Polochic Valley told most effectively through the lives of the key participants."
(Jim Handy Hispanic American Historical Review )
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