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Title: Allende's Chile: An Inside View by Edward Boorstein ISBN: 0-7178-0488-7 Publisher: International Publishers Co Pub. Date: August, 1977 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best source on Allende's Chile
Comment: Boorstein's book, Allende's Chile, is far and away the best source on the Allende government, 1970-73. Boorstein was there, and has the kind of detailed account only an eyewitness can provide.
His narrative of the increasing economic and political difficulties faced by the Allende government, and the drama of the struggle, is engaging, crystal clear, chronological, and illuminating of the economic and political forces at work.
He is realistic, acknowledging the weaknesses in the decision-making processes and in the government's strategy, and at the same time bringing to light the ways in which the government was undermined, and the economy sabotaged, by opposition groups and the CIA.
This is an exceptionally valuable piece of history; every library and every Latin Americanist should own it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Intersting parts, boring as a whole.
Comment: The author worked for the Allende government and the best part of the book is the 'inside' perspective he adds. The highlight is his narration of the efforts made by him and other advisers in the US to protect Chilean interests from American Multinationals lawsuits, embargos, etc..that could come as a result of Allende's aggresive programs against them .
However, most of the book goes back to the same old boring common-place of how Imperialists Americans and Pinochet's "Bad Boys" are responsible for Allende's failure. Even the horrible economic situation is blamed on them. (Because Communism worked everywhere else!!!).
Anyway, the book was written in 1975 and at that time that speech was believed. Today, we know almost half of the chileans support Pinochet until today, and that although Americans played a role, the economic chaos was Allende's fault... for his irresponsible and un-professional programs.
Rating: 5
Summary: Let me read it!
Comment: A great book full of information. I couldn't put the damn thing down. HIGHLY recommended.
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Title: Chile: The Other September 11 by Pilar Aguilera, Ricardo Fredes, AguileraPilar ISBN: 1876175508 Publisher: Ocean Press Pub. Date: 11 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Salvador Allende Reader : Chile's Voice of Democracy by Salvador Allende Gossens, James D. Cockcroft, Jane Canning, Salvador Allende, Cockroft ISBN: 1876175249 Publisher: Ocean Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti-Memoir by Marc Cooper ISBN: 1859843603 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet by Pamela Constable, Arturo Valenzuela, Pamela Costable ISBN: 0393309851 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability (A National Security Archive Book) by Peter Kornbluh ISBN: 1565845862 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 11 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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