| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Democracy and U.S. Policy in Latin America during the Truman Years. By Steven Schwartzberg. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xviii, 311 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2664-4.)
This book is a refreshing return to an earlier generation of American diplomatic historians. Since the days of Samuel "Wave the Flag" Bemis, few historians of United States relations with Latin America have dared to applaud the noble intentions of American policy makers. Instead, we are so accustomed to denunciations of paternalistic, imperialistic, and anti-democratic policies that Steven Schwartzberg's patriotic promotion of the democratic, anticommunist Cold War liberalism of Spruille Braden may surprise a few readers. Historians should embrace this opportunity to reconsider standard tenets of New Left historiography.	1
Prevailing wisdom holds that the advent of the Cold War compelled the United States to sacrifice democratic principles and work with pro-American dictatorships that supported the anticommunist policies of the United States. According to Schwartzberg, the Cold War was not responsible for the breakdown of democratic regimes. In fact, anticommunism and Cold War considerations exercised a predominantly pro-democratic influence on American policy from before the end of the Second World War until after the military coups in Lima and Caracas. (p. xvi)	. . .

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