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Bitter Fruit The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded

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ISBN-10: 067401930X

ISBN-13: 9780674019300

Edition: 2nd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer, John H. Coatsworth, Richard A. Nuccio

List price: $22.95
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This text presents a comprehensive account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954.
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Book details

List price: $22.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Americas Society
Publication date: 12/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 374
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Stephen Schlesinger is Director of the World Policy Institute.

Stephen Kinzer is a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.

John H. Coatsworth is Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and former Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.

Introduction
Foreword
Reflections in 2005
The battle begins
A teacher takes power
An age of reform
The clouds gather
The overlord : the United Fruit Company
Advertisements for myself
Operation success
The liberator
The proconsul
The secret voyage of the "Alfhem"
The final countdown
Arbenz fights back
The longest day
The liberation
The aftermath
Afterword