first edition Trade Paperback
1994 · New York
by Smith, Gaddis
New York: Hill and Wang, 1994. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x9. First edition. An exceptional copy. 1994 Trade Paperback. 280 pp. When President Monroe issued his 1823 doctrine on U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere, it quickly became as sacred to Americans as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. But in the years after World War II - notably in Guatemala in 1954, in Brazil in 1963, in Chile in 1973, and in El Salvador in the 1980s - our government's policy of supporting repressive regimes in Central and South America hastened the death of the very doctrine that had been invoked to protect us in the Cold War, by associating its application with torture squads, murder, and the denial of the very democratic ideals the Monroe Doctrine was intended to protect. Gaddis Smith's measured but devastating account is essential reading for all those who care how the United States behaves in the world arena. (Inventory #: 2343063)