A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's world During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into...
Addresses the presence in the United States of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants from countries other than Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Focusing on the Andes, Central America, and Brazil, this book brings together essays by a number of scholars....
Immer geht es - angeblich - um die Verbreitung der demokratischen Idee. Aber meistens geht es schief. Seit dem Jahr 1893, als amerikanische Plantagenbesitzer mit Hilfe der amerikanischen Regierung in Washington die hawaiianische Monarchie stürzten,...
Discusses the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country's elected prime minister, ushered in a quarter-century of brutal rule under the Shah, and stimulated the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and anti-Americanism in the Middle East.