Twilight Struggle

By Robert Kagan,

Book cover of Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990

Book description

A detailed history and analysis of the Nicaraguan Revolution and the American response to it

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1 author picked Twilight Struggle as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Penned by a conservative scholar who held a high-level Latin America foreign policy position in the Reagan administration, I don’t always agree with Kagan’s logic or evidence. But he is a fantastic writer and gives readers a riveting, albeit controversial, first-person account of the Reagan team’s adversarial relationship and interventions in Marxist revolutionary Nicaragua. 

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