Shattered Hope
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Shattered Hope

The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954

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Shattered Hope

The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954

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The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "convenient villain." "Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, by a CIA-orchestrated coup."--Foreign Affairs "Piero Gleijeses offers a historical road map that may serve as a guide for future generations.... [Readers] will come away with an understanding of the foundation of a great historical tragedy."--Saul Landau, The Progressive "[Gleijeses's] academic rigor does not prevent him from creating an accessible, lucid, almost journalistic account of an episode whose tragic consequences still reverberate."--Paul Kantz, Commonweal

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781400843497
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia de Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. List of Figures
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. A Note on Documentation
  10. Abbreviations
  11. Prologue: Witnesses
  12. Chapter 1: The Era of Ubico
  13. Chapter 2: The Presidency of Juan José Arévalo
  14. Chapter 3: The Death of Francisco Arana
  15. Chapter 4: The Election of Jacobo Arbenz
  16. Chapter 5: The United States and Arévalo: Arévalo’s Sins
  17. Chapter 6: The United States and Arévalo: The U.S. Response
  18. Chapter 7: The World of Jacobo Arbenz
  19. Chapter 8: The Agrarian Reform
  20. Chapter 9: The Revolutionary Forces
  21. Chapter 10: The “Christian” Opposition
  22. Chapter 11: The International Conspiracy against Guatemala
  23. Chapter 12: The Caracas Conference
  24. Chapter 13: The Agony of the Regime
  25. Chapter 14: The Fall of Arbenz
  26. Chapter 15: Conclusion
  27. Epilogue: The Fate of the Defeated
  28. Bibliography
  29. Index