Empire's Workshop

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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR J'. v'-^
" EMPIRE'S WORKSHOP
"The Americans who engineered countless military coups, death squads, and massacres in Latin America never paid for their crimes-instead they got promoted and they're now running the 'War on Terror.' Grandin had always been a brilliant historian; now he uses those detective skills in a book that is absolutely crucial to understanding our present." -NAOiVIl KLEIN, author of/Vo ?0^0
"Greg Grandin knows the history of modern Guatemala better than anybody else in the world outside of that country-and therefore understands the nature of U.S. attitudes and action toward Latin America at their most disturbing. This grants him keen insight into the manic ferocity behind U.S. imperialism across the globe today, which he describes in fine, rich, vivid, bitter detail. Grandin also shrewdly observes that the outrages possible in little U.S. neo-colonies are not so easy to accomplish on a grand scale. His admirable book deserves many, many... Tovább

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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR J'. v'-^
" EMPIRE'S WORKSHOP
"The Americans who engineered countless military coups, death squads, and massacres in Latin America never paid for their crimes-instead they got promoted and they're now running the 'War on Terror.' Grandin had always been a brilliant historian; now he uses those detective skills in a book that is absolutely crucial to understanding our present." -NAOiVIl KLEIN, author of/Vo ?0^0
"Greg Grandin knows the history of modern Guatemala better than anybody else in the world outside of that country-and therefore understands the nature of U.S. attitudes and action toward Latin America at their most disturbing. This grants him keen insight into the manic ferocity behind U.S. imperialism across the globe today, which he describes in fine, rich, vivid, bitter detail. Grandin also shrewdly observes that the outrages possible in little U.S. neo-colonies are not so easy to accomplish on a grand scale. His admirable book deserves many, many serious readers."
- J 0 H N W 0 iVI A C K, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Harvard University, and author of Zapata
PRAISE FOR THE LAST COLONIAL MASSACRE
"Remarkable and extremely well-written I could not put this book down."
-ERICHOBSBAWM, author of Interesting Times
"Remarkable weaves biography and history, ideology and politics, into a coherent narrative moving and compelling."
-MAHMOOD MAMDANI, author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
PRAISE FOR THE BLOOD OF GUATEMALA
> . A remarkable tour de force. Jt ¦ A
-KENNETH MAXWELL, Foreign Affairs

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