Volume 38, Number 13 · July 18, 1991
Looking Back at the Revolution
By Julia Preston
Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua
by Stephen Kinzer
Putnam's, 450 pp., $24.95
Inside Central America: Its People, Politics, and History
by Clifford Krauss
Summit, 316 pp., $19.95
Stephen Kinzer and Clifford Krauss both covered Central America as news correspondents for thirteen years. This is a long time for an American correspondent to stay in one region, and it is especially long in Central America, where throughout the 1980s the pace of news and bloodletting was relentlessly exhausting. Also, Central America does not at first seem to offer the historical depth or cultural diversity to hold a journalist's fascination for a decade or better. After the millions of words about the region that filled American newspapers during the Reagan years, I believe many journalists, and not a few readers, were left feeling that they knew more than they needed to know about a neck of small, shallow countries which probably never merited the fuss that was made over them.
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