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"Thomas Field's new book on the Alliance for Progress in Bolivia demonstrates just how comfortable America's Cold War foreign policy establishment was with dictatorship as its preferred method of rule in Latin America. Dictatorship and development became the twin pillars of the Alliance for Progress, Field’s important book demonstrates. These sorts of historical narratives are necessary for modern readers to understand the roots of American foreign policy problems today."―Erik Loomis, author of Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe, on the Lawyers, Guns & Money blog
"Field shows how U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funding was employed to arm peasant militias against militant miners, all in the name of development. Field's book is well-researched and his work benefits from a deep engagement with Bolivia."―Andrew J. Kirkendall, author ofPaulo Freire and the Cold War Politics of Literacy,H-Diplo State of the Field
"A tremendous contribution to the historiography."―Philip E. Muehlenbeck, author ofBetting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy's Courting of African Nationalist Leaders,H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews
"A compelling local portrait of the violence that anticommunist development brought on the Bolivian left, the fracturing of the country's nationalist and revolutionary parties under the pressures of U.S. intervention, and the forms of political mobilization that the Bolivian state fought and cultivated in the Andean mines and villages."―Amy C. Offner, H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews
"From Development to Dictatorship is impressively researched and clearly written and makes significant contributions to the history of Bolivia and U.S. foreign relations in the Kennedy era. Thomas C. Field Jr.'s detailed coverage of this period of Bolivian-U.S. relations sheds light on the direction the Bolivian military took; the role of developmental ideology in Bolivia's drift toward militarism; the influence of the United States in shaping Bolivia's internal political processes; and the ways that the developmental goals of the Alliance for Progress were intimately connected to the anticommunist, militarist, and authoritarian themes of Kennedy/Johnson policies. This is a very strong addition to the literature and our understanding of why Bolivia’s revolution ended as it did."―Kenneth D. Lehman, Squires Professor of History, Hampden-Sydney College, author of Bolivia and the United States: A Limited Partnership
"In From Development to Dictatorship, Thomas C. Field Jr. probes intriguing and important questions about the Alliance for Progress. Field's most impressive archival research in the United States, Bolivia, Great Britain, and France yields magnificent results by providing an exceptionally clear understanding of the actual goals and workings of the Alliance."―Mark Gilderhus, LBJ Chair of History, retired, Texas Christian University, author of The Second Century: U.S.-Latin American Relations since 1889
"From Development to Dictatorship will have an influence on more than our understanding of the land that beguiled Che Guevara. The product of remarkable interviews and of deft multi-archive international history, his intricate reconstruction of the Bolivian revolutionary scene in the early 1960s sets a high standard for reaching conclusions about the effect of U.S.-led development in any country at any time. Whether you believe that the 'Best and the Brightest' championed development in the ‘Third World’ as an act of enlightened self-interest or because of naked imperialism, this book absorbs your attention and makes you reconsider one of the defining impulses of the Kennedy era."― Timothy Naftali, coauthor of “One Hell of a Gamble”
"In From Development to Dictatorship, Thomas C. Field Jr. offers a new and compelling interpretation of John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, focusing on the case of Bolivia. His evidence is impressive and his analysis rigorous. This is a thought-provoking book."―Piero Gleijeses, The Johns Hopkins University (SAIS), author of Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959–1976
"This outstanding book serves as a model for international history. Thomas C. Field Jr. displays a remarkable knowledge of Bolivian history and culture. He further demonstrates that bilateral relations are complex and that generalizations about inter-American relations are often undermined when scholars conduct case studies that are thoroughly grounded in archival sources in both the United States and individual Latin American countries."―Stephen G. Rabe, Ashbel Smith Chair of History, University of Texas at Dallas, author of The Killing Zone: The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America
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