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Stephen Schlesinger

    Bitter Fruit
    • 2006

      Bitter Fruit

      • 358 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      4.3(1619)Add rating

      Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. This book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the U.S. and the Third World. It is a warning of what happens when the U.S. abuses its power.

      Bitter Fruit