A Call to Conscience: The Anti-Contra War Campaign

by Roger Peace

Unlike earlier U.S. interventions in Latin America, the Reagan administration's attempt to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua during the 1980s was not allowed to proceed quietly. Tens of thousands of American citizens organized and agitated against U.S. aid to the counterrevolutionary guerrillas, known as "contras." Believing the Contra War to be unnecessary, immoral, and illegal, they challenged the administration's Cold War stereotypes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558499326
• ISBN13: 9781558499324
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"