In Los Estados Unidos y Trujillo: Los días finales, 1960– 61, Dominican historian and economist Bernardo Vega examines U.S.-Dominican relations during Trujillo’s last 17, months in power. In this fifth volume of his United States and Trujillo series, Vega sets out to analyze U.S.-Dominican relations during a period of “extraordinary importance” (p. 1). In addition to volumes corresponding to the years 1930, 1945, 1946, 1947, and the current volume, Vega has published books outside the series that examine specific themes in U.S.-Dominican relations, such as U.S. financial control in the Dominican Republic and Trujillo’s relationship with members of the U.S. Armed Forces. Vega’s research, which is presented in a clear and organized manner, was facilitated during his 1997–99 term as Dominican Ambassador to the United States.
Although Vega published two books in 1991 that dealt with the same years under study in this volume, Eisenhower y Trujillo and Kennedy...
