Somoza And the Legacy of U.S. Involvement in Central America by Bernard Diederich (1981-09-29)

This engaging story of Nicaragua's notorious tyrant is more than a biography. Solidly written for a general as well as scholarly audience, it paints a portrait of the man against a backdrop of Nicaragua's political structure, social circumstance, and economic background, encompassing its relations with other Central American countries and the ramifications of the civil war of 1978-79.