Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded / Edition 2

ISBN-13:	9780674019300
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	12/30/2005
Series:	Series on Latin American Studies , #4
Edition description:	Revised and Expanded
Pages:	374
Sales rank:	117,390
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

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.