The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine: 1945-1993

by Gaddis Smith

Book Overview

When President Monroe issued his 1823 doctrine on U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere, it quickly became as sacred to Americans as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. But in the years after World War II - notably in Guatemala in 1954, in Brazil in 1963, in Chile in 1973, and in El Salvador in the 1980s - our government's policy of supporting repressive regimes in Central and South America hastened the death of the very doctrine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809015684
• ISBN13: 9780809015689
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 8.6"