Assassination on Embassy Row (McGraw-Hill paperbacks)

Dinges, John

Landau, Saul

McGraw=Hill

From the 1960s to the 1980s revolutionary nationalists in Central America believed that only armed struggle could free their countries from US domination and oligarchical rule. Saul Landau tells the story of three bitter and bloody civil wars. In the 1980s the wars being fought in these tiny nations engaged the entire political world, as the US obsession with the Sandinistas produced the Iran-Contra scandal. In El Salvador the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero focussed world attention on the torture and murder of Catholic priests in Latin America. In Guatemala, US intervention in the 1950s helped to produce the bloodiest sequence of military governments in Central America. These conflicts had their roots in the extreme inequalities of the region and were fuelled by US financial and military intervention, as US policy-makers saw in every regional conflict a Cold War dimension.

Guerrilla Wars of Central America

History

Americas

St.Martin's Press

Landau (senior fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C.) tells the story of three bitter and bloody civil wars (in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua); of the overthrow of Somoza and eventual success in Nicaragua; and the achievement finally of peace talks in El Salvador and Guatemala. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Guerrilla Wars of Central America: Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala

St Martins Pr

The Dangerous Doctrine: National Security And U.s. Foreign Policy

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Routledge

The Business of America: How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend (Pathways Through the Twenty-First Century)

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Business & Money

Economics

Saul Landau is an internationally known scholar, author, journalist, poet and activist. An Emmy-award-winning film maker, he does frequent radio and TV shows, and his work on human rights and Latin America have won him acclaim the world over. 
This, his latest book, is a scathing account of George W. Bush's world before and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks that will appeal to anyone who is disenchanted with the cynicism of Bush's government, and the blatant imperialism U.S. international policy -- or those who just want to learn about what's happening in US politics. 
Landau covers the topical and controversial issues -- from terrorism and US foreign policy to Bush's wondrous election victory; from Enron, Chile and Pinochet to Cuba, the Middle East, the IMF, the environment and sexual and cultural politics. 
He delves into the erosion of civil liberties and the proliferation of empire under the guise of pre-empting the scourge of terrorism. Landau reveals how Bush protects "his" terrorists -- those who perpetrate violence against Castro’s Cuba, and to whom he owes his presidency. He also examines how Bush has appointed former officials to high level posts in his cabinet despite their membership in a conspiracy to sell weapons of mass destruction to Iran in the 1980s. 
In "declassifying" Bush’s Empire, Landau dissects a post-9/11 world where deference to patriotism obliterates debate in Congress and the media. How can the notion of empire happily co-exist with the notion of a republic? In times like these, as dissenting voices are stifled and the public are denied access to the facts about their own security, Landau shows how democracy itself is under threat. He asks whether the already fragile world economy can survive in the new "security" culture of the post-9/11 world. 
This is an entertaining read from one of America's foremost cultural and political commentators. Above all, Landau makes a convincing case for the necessity of activism -- the book is not only funny but is also a ringing call for citizens to participate in making their own history.

The Pre-Emptive Empire: A Guide to Bush's Kingdom

Pluto Press

The Dangerous Doctrine: National Security And U.s. Foreign Policy (Policy Alternatives for the Caribbean and Central America)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Westview Press

Book by Landua, Saul, Landau, Saul

The Dangerous Doctrine: National Security And U.s. Foreign Policy (A Pacca Book)

Hardcover. Dedicated to journalist Jonathan Steele. Superficial marks and light scores on jacket. Hardcover and jacket spine ends and rear lower leading corner are bumped. Hardcover spine ends, edges and leading corners are slightly faded. Page block is tanned and lightly foxed. Text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. HJW

Assassination on Embassy Row

Writing and Readers Publishing Cooperative Ltd.

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