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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780674019300
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 12-30-2005
Pages: 374
Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Series: Latin American Studies
About the Author
Stephen Schlesinger is Director of the World Policy Institute. Stephen Kinzer is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs 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.