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Small Earthquake in Chile: New, Revised, and Expanded Edition of the Classic Account of Allende's Chile
Small Earthquake in Chile New Revised and Expanded Edition of the Classic Account of Allende's Chile Author:Alistair Horne, William F. Buckley Jr. (Introduction) In 1970, the first freely elected Marxist regime in history was established in Chile under the leadership od Salvador Allende. Eager to discover the events and motivations that lay behind this cataclysmic change, the historian Alistair Horne, accompanied by William F. Buckley, Jr., taveled through the Andean republics of Colombia, Bolivia, Peru,... more » and Chile istelf, searching for answers.
Horne's journal provides fascinating insights into the region, from the vanished civilizations of the Incas to the bustle of today's modern cities. Through interviews with peasants in the hinterlands and officials at the forefront of political ferment, Horne discovered much about the forces that pull society apart and national consciousness together -- and why Allende's ideological victory was both remarkable and dangerous.« less