Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1. Truman, Eisenhower, and the Cold War in Latin America
• 2. Underdevelopment, Repression, and Revolution
• 3. The Revolutionary Governments: Communism or Nationalism?
• 4. The View from the North
• S. From Truman to Eisenhower: The Road to Intervention
• 6. Project PBSUCCESS: The Preparation
• 7. Project PBSUCCESS: The Coup
• 8. Project PBSUCCESS: The Legacy
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Promotional Information

A definitive, powerfully writtenaccount of the United States' clandestine operations in Guatemala and their consequences in Latin America today

Reviews

... a valuable study of what Immerman correctly portrays as a seminal event, not just in the annals of the Cold War, but in U.S.-Latin American relations.
*The Washington Monthly*

... a damning indictment of American interference abroad.
*The Pittsburgh Press*

This story is much more thorough than the recent popularized account of the same events by Stephen Kinzer and Stephen Schlesinger ...
*Choice*