Nicaragua, the Price of Intervention
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Nicaragua, the Price of Intervention by Peter Kornbluh
Possibly the most interesting descendant of Justice and Magdalen Gonce, the ancestors of virtually all Gonces in the United States today, was Abraham Rudolph Gonce. Doc Gonce was not only a medical practitioner and Missouri pioneer, but at various times was a public servant, bootlegger, and murderer. He married at least four times (including a pair of concurrent marriages that resulted in a prison term for bigamy) and had at least seventeen children. He is most infamous for the murder of his town's postmaster, for which he served another term in the Missouri Penitentiary. In addition to full transcripts of Doc's trials for bigamy and murder, this book also documents the outlaw activities and sometimes tragic stories surrounding a few of Doc's Gonce descendants that continued well into the twentieth century - a burglary committed by two of Doc's great-great grandsons was even featured on the popular television show America's Most Wanted.
Peter Kornbluh directs the Chile Documentation Project at the National Security Archive. He is the author of Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba and The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability and a co-author (with Laurence Chang) of Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader and (with Malcolm Byrne) of The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History, all published by The New Press. He lives in Washington, D.C. Malcolm Byrne is the director of analysis at the National Security Archive. He coedited the Archive's first book on the Iran-Contra scandal, The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras, and is the author of numerous articles on the scandal.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780897580403 |
| ISBN 10 | 0897580400 |
| Title | Nicaragua, the Price of Intervention |
| Author | Peter Kornbluh |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Institute for Policy Studies |
| Year published | 1987-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 287 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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