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TWILIGHT STRUGGLE: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990
by: Robert Kagan

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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 327.730728509047
EAN: 9780028740577
ISBN: 0028740572
Label: Free Press
Manufacturer: Free Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 928
Publication Date: March 01, 1996
Publisher: Free Press
Studio: Free Press
Sales Rank: 853534

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
A prominent architect of Latin American policy in the Reagan Administration presents a detailed history and analysis of the Nicaraguan Revolution and the American response to it, including the arming of the Contra rebels.

Amazon.com Review:
Robert Kagan, an adviser on Central American policy in the Reagan administration, offers a sharply critical history of what he perceives to be American missteps in Nicaragua during a time of revolution. A tiny and politically inconsequential country, Nicaragua occupied a front-burner place in negotiations between the United States and Soviet Union, even when neither party seemed to care much about the ultimate fate of that nation. In the end, the Reagan doctrine of containment ended in failure, as an avowedly Marxist government held power for more than a decade. But so, too, did the Soviet doctrine of expansionism yield no fruit. Kagan credits Costa Rican president Oscar Arias with finding a way to break the impasse in U.S.-Soviet-Nicaraguan relations, thanks to which the Bush administration restored full diplomatic exchange and negotiated the free elections that brought democratic forces to power in Managua.

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Rating:

- Informative and factual
This is probably the best book I've seen about Nicaragua and the Cold War during the 1980's. I did a research project there for several months and found Kagan's book to be very helpful and very accurate. Too bad it's out of print.

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- Very Complete
A very describetive account of USA intervention in Nicaragua begginning with The Knox Letter ending with the closing of the Iran-Contra scandal. Before picking up this book you should relize that it is very long and VERY detailed; however, it is very interesting if you are at all interested in the cold war. (note: also helped raised my SAT vocabulary score to a 700)

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