U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions – Pursuing Regime Change in th…

U.S. Presidents and Latin American InterventionsPursuing Regime Change in the Cold War\nAuthor(s): Michael Grow\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Kansas, United States\nImprint: University Press of Kansas\nISBN-13: 9780700615865, 978-0700615865\nSynopsis\nLyndon Johnson invaded the Dominican Republic. Richard Nixon sponsored a coup attempt in Chile. Ronald Reagan waged covert warfare in Nicaragua. Nearly a dozen times during the Cold War, American presidents turned their attention from standoffs with the Soviet Union to intervene in Latin American affairs. In each instance, it was declared that the security of the United States was at stake - but, as Michael Grow demonstrates, these actions had more to do with flexing presidential muscle than responding to imminent [url] Eisenhower's toppling of Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954 to Bush's overthrow of Noriega in Panama in 1989, Grow casts a close eye on eight major cases of [url] intervention in the Western Hemisphere, offe.