Title Shattered hope : the Guatemalan revolution and the United States, 1944-1954 / Piero Gleijeses.

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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1991.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	327.73072 G557S	Check Shelf

Description	xviii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-421) and index.
Contents	Prologue : witnesses -- The era of Ubico -- The presidency of Juan José Arévalo -- The death of Francisco Arana -- The election of Jacobo Arbenz -- The United States and Arévalo : Arévalo's sins -- The United States and Arévalo : the U.S. response -- The world of Jacobo Arbenz -- The agrarian reform -- The revolutionary forces -- The "Christian" opposition -- The international conspiracy against Guatemala -- The Caracas conference -- The agony of the regime -- The fall of Arbenz -- Conclusion -- The fate of the defeated.
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.
Subject	United States -- Foreign relations -- Guatemala.
	Guatemala -- Foreign relations -- United States.
	United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953.
	Guatemala -- Politics and government -- 1945-1985.
	Guatemala -- Relaciones exteriores -- United States.
	United States -- Relaciones exteriores -- 1945 1953.
	Guatemala -- Política y gobierno -- 1945 1985.
	Diplomatic relations. (OCoLC)fst01907412
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Guatemala. (OCoLC)fst01205154
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Buitenlandse betrekkingen.
	Revoluties.
	Interventie.
	Außenpolitik. (DE-588)4003846-4
	Guatemala -- Putsch (1954) (DE-588)4122581-8
	Guatemala -- Revolution (1944) (DE-588)4261167-2
	Guatemala. (DE-588)4022428-4
	United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
	Außenpolitik.
	Geschichte (1944-1954)
	United States.
	Guatemala -- Revolution (1944)
	Guatemala -- Putsch (1954)
	Guatemala.
Chronological Term	1945-1985
Indexed Term	Foreign relations History
	United States
	Guatemala
ISBN	0691078173 (cloth ;) (acid-free paper)
	9780691078175 (cloth ;) (acid-free paper)
	0691025568 (paperback)
	9780691025568 (paperback)

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