Books by Steve J Stern
“This is an extraordinarily moving book. It tells the story of people who, in the most appalling circumstances, tried to defend liberty. Not people who were necessarily very much on the left, but just ordinary decent democrats…He focuses on key episodes, like the assassination attempt on Pinochet in 1986 and what that meant. There is a great deal on the church. Although the church in Chile is a very conservative institution now, it had a strong line on human rights. For the first ten years of the dictatorship, before the economic crisis of 1982/3, the only real internal opposition to the abuses of the regime came from the Catholic Church.” Read more...
The best books on Pinochet and Chilean Politics
Alan Angell, Political Scientist
Interviews where books by Steve J Stern were recommended
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The Pinochet Regime
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Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973–1988
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Fear in Chile: Lives Under Pinochet
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Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey
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Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers And Neoliberalism In The Pinochet Era, 1973–2002
by Peter Winn
The best books on Pinochet and Chilean Politics, recommended by Alan Angell
The best books on Pinochet and Chilean Politics, recommended by Alan Angell
Marshalling one of the first ever televised coups, Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s legacy is fraught. While some apologists try to justify the dictatorship on economic grounds, his time in office saw innumerable human rights abuses. Alan Angell, Emeritus Fellow in Latin American Politics at the University of Oxford, considers the regime of “a very cruel man.”
