Pinochet and Me

A Chilean Anti-Memoir

By: Marc Cooper

Write A Review

Paperback | 17 June 2002 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback
154 Pages

Edition Type
New edition

Dimensions(cm)
17.78 x 12.07 x 1.27

Paperback

$39.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $9.94 with

Ships in 5 to 10 business days

The earthshaking news of October 1998 that General Pinochet had been arrested in Britain unleashed two years of international interest in the case and its ramifications for traveling tyrants the world over. But even after the General’s return home, the media has ignored the more important story of how his detention lifted a stranglehold that had suffocated Chile’s moral sensibility for a generation.
Award-winning journalist Marc Cooper was a translator to President Allende until the coup of 1973. In this reflection on Chile and the role it has played in his life, he reconstructs the tense atmosphere of the final days of the Allende government, including his hiding and subsequent evacuation under armed UN protection. Twenty-five years later he returns and recounts, in vivid street-level reporting, a country that is a democracy in name only and a society that has been transfigured by one of the most radical, armed capitalist revolutions of our time. Yet, he argues, spasms of protest that seemed like the last rattle of the snake may still presage the crumbling of Chile’s status quo as its people emerge from the long night of reaction to the cry of "Adios General!"

Industry Reviews

"Tragic, suspenseful and filled with the tiny personal details that bring history to life ... " -- LA Weekly "Cooper's judicious prose issues forth from the lime-sprinkled sinkhole of Chile's collective amnesia, attempting to construct a beseiged and busted-out past. The author sets a defiant language against the obliterating shadow cast by Pinochet's regime; he strugggles to breathe remembrance into a decades-long nightmare of civilian death, imprisonment, and exile." -- Village Voice" Pinochet and Me provides a passionate first-hand chronicle of Chile's transformation from socialist democracy to brutal, militaristic regime to problematic poster nation for free-market capitalism." - Mother Jones "Cooper wastes no time in nailing the lie - still propagated by Pinochet's apologists - that Allende's regime lacked democratic legitimacy, that torture and assassinations were 'a price worth paying' for economic stability." - The Times Literary Supplement "Rarely does one find a book that is simultaneously so gripping, politically insightful and thouroughly humane in spirit... [Pinochet and Me is] unforgettable." - Shepherd Express, Milwaukee

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $0.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

You Can Find This Book In

Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Politics & Government Political Structure & Processes Constitution & The Government & The State International Relations Sociology & Anthropology Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Post War 20th Century History after 1945

Biographies & True Stories Biographies Political Ideologies & Movements

Preface: Homage to Santiago	p. ix
Prelude: "My Name is Pinochet" November-December 1971	p. 1
Omen: Allende's Dilemma July 1973	p. 17
Deluge: Chronicle of a Death Postponed September 1973	p. 31
Aftermath: Perpetual Night December 1975	p. 55
Resistance: Streets of Fire September 1983	p. 71
Illusion: a Transvestite Democracy January-March 1998	p. 82
Resurrection: Adios General! December 1999-September 2000	p. 111
Acknowledgments	p. 139
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved.

Pinochet and Me

A Chilean Anti-Memoir

At a Glance

Paperback

Industry Reviews

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in Constitution & The Government & The State

Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Minority Rule

Adventures in the Culture War - the instant Sunday Times bestseller

If You're Listening

Declassified - Stories from history and current affairs told by the award-winning ABC podcaster

The Prince

Penguin Pocket Hardbacks

The People's Guide to the Australian Constitution

Braver New World

The Countries Daring to Do Things Others Won't

AI for a Just World

Power, Liberation, and the People Left Behind

Public Law in a Hybrid State

Legal Reform and Global Sociology in Uzbekistan

Informality and Courts

Comparative Perspectives

Irony in International Politics

A Real Right to Vote

How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy

Partisan Nation

The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era

The U.S. Constitution

A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader

Regime Change

Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

Where Tyranny Begins

The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War On Democracy

The Prince

The Design by Coralie Bickford-Smith

The Idea of China

A Contested History

World Order

Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History

The Palace Letters

The Queen, the governor-general, and the plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam

My Own Words

The New Silk Roads

Present and Future of the World

Korea

A New History of South and North

Foreign Policy Analysis

Classic and Contemporary Theory 2nd Edition

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia

History, Principle and Interpretation

This product is categorised by