A Nation of Enemies
Subtitle: Chile Under Pinochet
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: May 1993
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780393309850
First sentence: AT 11:52 A.M. on September 11, 1973, two Hawker Hunter fighter jets streaked across the late-winter sky over downtown Santiago, the sprawling capital halfway down Chile's 2,000-mile Pacific coast.
Description: "Drawing admirably on their respective talents as a journalist and scholar, Constable and Valenzuela have provided the best overview thus far available of the long authoritarian chapter in Chile's democratic history-its causes, evolution and demise. Written with sensitivity, creativity and verve, it takes up the roles of military officers, lawyers, technocrats, the business elite, politicians and the poor in shaping General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and eventually in making possible the return to democratic life. A compelling account."--Foreign Afairs website (Oct. 14, 2010).