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Bananas!: How The United Fruit Company Shaped the World
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Chapman is definitely not afraid to name names. The only reason I figure he is still alive is that the Secret Government realizes few will read the book or even care. Indeed, this is exactly why I gave this terrific book a mere 4 stars. Like all the rest, it will not make the future one bit of difference. Yet, this brief volume is a fascinating ind... »
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
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On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century, Europeans first began to explore the possibilities of creating a link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow but mountainous isthmus;... »
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Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul
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Michael Reid's Forgotten Continent is a tiresome repetitive report on the Economist's already well known distrust for Chavez and the rest of the Latin American left in the new Millenium. It is not academically researched or based on interviews and therefore is mostly an account of Reid's (and the Economist's) opinions on the region's center-left trend... »
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
Even to those without Marxist sympathies, Che Guevara (1928-67) was a dashing, charismatic figure: the asthmatic son of an aristocratic Argentine family w... »
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The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
This would be my first introduction to Pablo Neruda, and I must say I'm a bit disappointed. Not that Neruda isn't a great poet, the Nobel Prize and critic... »
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Batista Unleashed
Dave Batista, one of WWE's current big stars, while his autobiography was in the planning stages, stated that he was a pretty boring guy and was only goin... »
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The Last Days of the Incas
As a person who traveled to Peru and walked the Inca Trail I was completely satisfied with the descriptions of ruins, roads, and the Inca culture highligh... »
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