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Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer, John H. Coatsworth is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala about?
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. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.
Who reads Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer, John H. Coatsworth
- Publisher
- Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies : Distributed by Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674019300
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Social Science, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.18 / 5 (869 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Bitter fruit : the untold story of the American coup in Guatemala (1983)
- Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (rev. ed. 2005; lacks Afterword!) (2005)
- Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies) (2005)
- Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (Expanded Ed. 2005: Afterword, pp. 257-266!) (1982)
- Bitter Fruit -Revised & Expanded ((REV)05) by Schlesinger, Stephen - Kinzer, Stephen - Coatsworth, John H [Paperback (2005)] (1999)
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