Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatamala
Bitter Fruit relates the sordid tale of how the US government overthrew a democratically-elected president in Guatemala on behalf of a Boston-based banana company, United Fruit, eventually plunging that small country into a civil war that killed over 200,000 people. It was a New York Times “notable” book selection on its publication in 1982 and is considered a classic in the annals of American foreign policy and international affairs. It has sold over 100,000 copies and has never been out of print. Stephen Schlesinger co-authored the book with Stephen Kinzer, former New York Times Latin American correspondent. The paperback publisher is Harvard University Press.
Click Here to read Preserving Bitter Fruit, a re-print of a 1999 Harvard International Review discussion about the book.