Shattered Hope : The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954 / Piero Gleijeses.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gleijeses, Piero, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Figures

Acknowledgments

A Note on Documentation

Abbreviations

Map

PROLOGUE. Witnesses

CHAPTER 1. The Era of Ubico

CHAPTER 2. The Presidency of Juan Jose Arévalo

CHAPTER 3. The Death of Francisco Arana

CHAPTER 4. The Election of Jacobo Arbenz

CHAPTER 5. The United States and Arévalo: Arévalo’s Sins

CHAPTER 6. The United States and Arévalo: The U.S. Response

CHAPTER 7. The World of Jacobo Arbenz

CHAPTER 8. The Agrarian Reform

CHAPTER 9. The Revolutionary Forces

CHAPTER 10. The “Christian” Opposition

CHAPTER 11. The International Conspiracy against Guatemala

CHAPTER 12. The Caracas Conference

CHAPTER 13. The Agony of the Regime

CHAPTER 14. The Fall of Arbenz

CHAPTER 15. Conclusion

EPILOGUE. The Fate of the Defeated

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)

ISBN:

9781400843497

1400843499

OCLC:

1312725712