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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Gleijeses, Piero,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)

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

Table of 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