Blood of Brothers
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Stephen Kinzer is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Merilee Grindle is the Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development, Emerita, at Harvard University and the former director of its David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. She served as president of the Latin American Studies Association and has written or contributed to over a dozen scholarly books.

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Because he spent as much time in the streets and villages as he did in embassies and restaurants, Kinzer was able to understand and report the many levels of reality generally hidden behind fogs of ideology, public statements and political rhetoric...Blood of Brothers is a must-read for anyone who hopes to understand the continuing need for a more enlightened U.S. foreign policy in Central America.
*Bill Kovach, Curator, Neiman Foundation at Harvard University*

A comprehensive and enthralling account of how the Sandinistas triumphed in the destruction of 'an old and unjust order,' but failed to make over Nicaragua in their own austere and militant image. Stephen Kinzer, an eyewitness to it all, does justice to both triumph and failure in this even-handed and readable book.
*Tom Wicker*

An example of public journalism at its best, his book will stand as the definitive study of Nicaragua in the turbulent 80s.
*Library Journal*

By the former New York Times Managua bureau chief, this is a well-written, information-rich survey of modern Nicaragua.
*Publisher's Weekly*

Because he spent as much time in the streets and villages as he did in embassies and restaurants, Kinzer was able to understand and report the many levels of reality generally hidden behind fogs of ideology, public statements and political rhetoric...Blood of Brothers is a must-read for anyone who hopes to understand the continuing need for a more enlightened U.S. foreign policy in Central America. -- Bill Kovach, Curator, Neiman Foundation at Harvard University
A comprehensive and enthralling account of how the Sandinistas triumphed in the destruction of 'an old and unjust order,' but failed to make over Nicaragua in their own austere and militant image. Stephen Kinzer, an eyewitness to it all, does justice to both triumph and failure in this even-handed and readable book. -- Tom Wicker
An example of public journalism at its best, his book will stand as the definitive study of Nicaragua in the turbulent 80s. * Library Journal *
By the former New York Times Managua bureau chief, this is a well-written, information-rich survey of modern Nicaragua. * Publisher's Weekly *

Kinzer served in Central America first in the 1970s as a freelance journalist and later as a New York Times bureau chief in Managua (1983-89). An eyewitness to events, he interviewed members of the Somoza, Sandinista, and contra hierarchies. As a result, he provides a highly objective and balanced assessment of events that led to the fall of the Somoza government in 1979. Kinzer avoids ideological bias, but he does note that the Sandinistas came to power because ``those most likely to shed blood are the most likely to triumph.'' Yet despite their many shortcomings, he concludes ``the Sandinistas at least provided a basis upon which a genuine democracy could be built.'' An example of public affairs journalism at its best, his book will stand as the definitive study of Nicaragua in the turbulent 1980s. It belongs in every public and school library.-- J.A. Rhodes, Luther Coll., Decorah, Ia.

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