Chronology. Who's Who. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Rafael Trujillo and Rómulo Betancourt: Dictatorship or Democracy? 2. Evita Perón and Hebe de Bonafini: Populist Heroine and Human Rights Icon. 3. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara: Making Latin America Matter. 4. Lázaro Cárdenas and Gustavo Díaz Ordaz: The Institutional Revolutionary State in a Revolutionary Era. 5. Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet: A Peaceful Path to Socialism or a Violent Road Back to Capitalism?. 6. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff: Defying the Dictatorship. 7. Óscar Romero and Efraín Ríos Montt: Religion and the Cold War in Central America. 8. Omar Torrijos and Manuel Noriega: One Old Problem Resolved, Another New Problem Unresolvable. 9. Violeta Barrios de Chamorro and Daniel Ortega: Whose Revolution? Conclusion. Documents. Glossary. Further Reading. Index.
Biography
Andrew J. Kirkendall is a Professor of History at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Hemispheric Alliances: Liberal Democrats and Cold War Latin America, Paulo Freire and the Cold War Politics of Literacy, and Class Mates: Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.
"Paired Lives is a thoughtful, innovative, and most importantly accessible book that would be invaluable to a Cold War or a Modern Latin America classroom. Paired Lives’ use of compelling biographies highlight well-known motifs of the Cold War in their Latin American context while complicating standard bipolar accounts focused on the US & USSR. Kirkendall’s narrative is clear in ways that make the lives accessible to those new to the Cold War or Latin America but with enough details, nuance, and historical debate to also appeal to and advance the knowledge of students more familiar with the global Cold War."
Dr. Colin Snider
Chair, Department of History, Associate Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor at University of Texas at Tyler
Book Review Editor, The Latin Americanist
