Book description
A detailed history and analysis of the Nicaraguan Revolution and the American response to it
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1 author picked Twilight Struggle as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Penned by a conservative scholar who held a high-level Latin America foreign policy position in the Reagan administration, I don’t always agree with Kagan’s logic or evidence. But he is a fantastic writer and gives readers a riveting, albeit controversial, first-person account of the Reagan team’s adversarial relationship and interventions in Marxist revolutionary Nicaragua.
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