Rag-Tags, Scum, Riff-Raff, and Commies
The U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965-1966
Chester, Eric
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Year Published: 2001
Pages: 385 pp ISBN: 0-85345-918-5
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX8762
A popular rebellion in the Dominican Republic toppled the remnants of the U.S. backed Trujillo dictatorship thus setting the stage for the master thinkers of America's Cold War machine. In this study, Eric Thomas Chester carefully reconstructs the events that followed.