Pinochet and Me by Marc Cooper
The news of October 1998 that General Pinochet had been arrested in Britain presaged two years of international interest in the case. This book tells the story of how the dictator's detention has lifted a stranglehold that suffocated Chile's moral sensibility for a generation.
In writing from Chile, Marc Cooper vividly and masterfully evokes some of the darkest chapters of US Cold War policyThis book brings to life the compelling human history buried under three decades of official stories and distortions. -- Warren Beatty
Remembering Chile's past with passion and pain, and witnessing Chile's present with heart-breaking lucidity and irony, Marc Cooper offers us many roads into the surreal country that, incredibly, has produced both Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet. -- Ariel Dorfman
Democratic Chile was indispensable in the education of Marc Cooper. Now he redeems the debt by become indispensable for our education in democratic Chile. -- Christopher Hitchens
Remembering Chile's past with passion and pain, and witnessing Chile's present with heart-breaking lucidity and irony, Marc Cooper offers us many roads into the surreal country that, incredibly, has produced both Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet. -- Ariel Dorfman
Democratic Chile was indispensable in the education of Marc Cooper. Now he redeems the debt by become indispensable for our education in democratic Chile. -- Christopher Hitchens
Marc Cooper was a translator for President Salvador Allende at the time of the Chilean coup in 1973. His journalism has appeared in publications that include the New Yorker, Harper's and Rolling Stone. He is currently a contributing editor of the Nation magazine, and is the author of Roll Over Che Guevara: Travels of a Radical Reporter and Pinochet and Me.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781859843604 |
| ISBN 10 | 1859843603 |
| Title | Pinochet and Me |
| Author | Marc Cooper |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2002-06-17 |
| Number of pages | 158 |
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