The Killing Zone: The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America
"A tight, compelling, deftly-drawn overview. . . . Rabe helps readers see how this doleful past challenges the popular, triumphalist version of the anticommunist struggle. A fresh, valuable addition to the literature." --Michael H. Hunt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill"Gracefully written and carefully documented, Rabe takes us inside Washington's policy making process to explain not simply the substance of U.S. policy, but also the logic behind it." --Lars Schoultz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill"The Killing Zone astutely synthesizes recent cutting-edge scholarship. At once analytic and empathetic, Rabe has delivered a thunderous dissent in the midst of the 'job-well-done' back slapping that continues to pass for much of Cold War historiography." --Greg Grandin, New York University"Historian Stephen G. Rabe'sThe Killing Zoneis a powerful indictment of United States policy in Latin America during the Cold War. ...The Killing Zoneis an engaging synthesis of the literature on recent United States-Latin American relations..." --International Social Science Review