Volume 31, Number 3 · March 1, 1984
Deeper into the Mire
By James Chace
Report of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America
Macmillan, 158 pp., $7.95 (paper)
Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America
by Walter LaFeber
Norton, 357 pp., $18.95
Central America: Anatomy of Conflict International Peace),
edited by Robert S. Leiken
Pergamon Press (in cooperation with the Carnegie Endowment for, 351 pp., $19.95
Toward Central America the United States has always asserted the prerogatives of a great power. The recent publication of a moving and comprehensive history of US involvement in Central America by Cornell's distinguished diplomatic historian Walter LaFeber and the subsequent release of the Kissinger commission's report on the region underscore the persistence of this behavior. Although the Kissinger report poses the problems of US policy toward Central America in their most acute form, it is far from being a historical examination of the situation in the region, and here is where LaFeber's book is especially helpful.
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