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Architects of Intervention: The United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, 1946-1962 (Eisenhower Center Studies on War & Peace) [Paperback]

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Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press; 1ST edition (March 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807123412
ISBN-13: 978-0807123416
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
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As one Greek-American writer commented in the early 1950s, "If Greece were located at the tip of Patagonia, we would care little if it were democratic or authoritarian." Read the first page

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