Somoza and the Legacy of U.S. Involvement in Central America

This engaging story of Nicaragua's notorious tyrant is more than a biography. Solidly written for a general as well as scholarly audience, it paints a portrait of the man against a backdrop of Nicaragua's political structure, social circumstance, and economic background, encompassing its relations with other Central American countries and the ramifications of the civil war of 1978-79.'Bernard Diederich has made a specialty of writing about some of the least likeable figures in contemporary history,?first Duvalier of Haiti and Trujillo of the Dominican Republic and now the Somozas of Nicaragua.' ?The New York Times Review of Books?[This] book is . . . very much the work of a reporter, setting out in great and readable detail, chronologically, the rise and fall of Tacho II, the last member of the Somoza dynasty.' ?New Society?Diederich's perceptive, carefully documented, and readable account, Somoza, casts fresh light on a dilemma that has vexed one U.S. Administration after another . . .' ?Business WeekBernard Diederich is the author of 'Somoza and the Legacy of U.S. Involvement in Central America' with ISBN 9781558764118 and ISBN 1558764119.