Bitter Fruit

Bitter Fruit
Author: Stephen Schlesinger
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674260074


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Bitter Fruit is 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.


Bitter Fruit
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: Stephen Schlesinger
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in
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