Bitter Fruit: The Story Of The American Coup In Guatemala; Author: Schlesinger, Stephen E.; Introduction: Nuccio, Richard A.; Paperback

Author: Schlesinger, Stephen E.; Introduction: Nuccio, Richard A.
Expanded Ed., 1st David Rockefeller Center for La; Paperback; 8 Halftones
360 pages
Published: September 1999
Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674075900

Bitter Fruit recounts in telling detail the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. The 1982 book has become a classic, a textbook case study of Cold War meddling that succeeded only to condemn Guatemala to decades of military dictatorship. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government publications and documents, as well as interviews with former CIA and other officials. The Harvard edition includes a powerful new introduction by historian John Coatsworth, Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; an insightful prologue by Richard Nuccio, former State Department official who revealed recent evidence of CIA misconduct in Guatemala to Congress; and a compelling afterword by coauthor StephNew in paperback. Recounts the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. The authors make use of US government publications and documents, as well as interviews with former CIA and other officials.