This volume is timely and informative. Undoubtedly, Jonathan Haslam benefited from the recent declassification of some conversations between Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon on the U.S. contribution to the 1973 coup. Haslam specifically sets out “to research and elucidate all the elements that resulted in the coup, both domestic and foreign; and to expand upon factors hitherto relatively neglected, including the politics of the socialist party prior to 1970, the mind-set of the Chilean military and Patria y Liber-tad, the role and significance of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionario, the Cuban dimension . . . and the long-standing operations of U.S. intelligence leading to the decision for a coup” (p. xiv). In the end, Haslam does not deliver all he promised, but that does not make the book any less exceptional. To the contrary, I found it to be helpful that he avoided a typical and often simplistically delivered structuralist...
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