Our Own Backyard The United States in Central America, 1977-1992

"Reading William LeoGrande's 'Our Own Backyard' is a distasteful experience. The book is difficult to stomach precisely because it is such a masterly and comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward Central America in the 1980s....Until scholars are granted access to the hundreds of thousands of pages of still-classified documents, LeoGrande's will probably remain the definitive account of America's part in that murderous conflict."LeoGrande, William M. is the author of 'Our Own Backyard The United States in Central America, 1977-1992', published 2000 under ISBN 9780807848579 and ISBN 0807848573.