The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
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Drawing on declassified documents, archival research, and eyewitness testimony, this meticulously researched political history exposes America's covert role in some of the twentieth century's most devastating mass atrocities. Vincent Bevins traces the U.S. government's anticommunist crusade from the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66—which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives—through military coups and violent interventions across Latin America and beyond. By connecting these seemingly disparate events, Bevins reveals a systematic pattern of American-backed violence designed to eliminate perceived communist threats, regardless of the human cost. This unflinching account challenges the official narratives of the Cold War and forces readers to reckon with how geopolitical strategy shaped—and destroyed—countless lives around the globe. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how twentieth-century American foreign policy continues to reverberate through our world today.
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paperback
PublicAffairs
Published Jan 1, 2021
340 pages
ISBN: 9781541724006
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First Published
2020
Language
eng
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