An account of the polarization of Chilean society under Augusto Pinochet and of Chile's return to democratic government.

"This will stand as the definitive work on Chile under Pinochet for many years to come."—Library Journal How Chile, once South America's most stable democracy

A former Chilean columnist offers a dramatic first-person chronicle of life under dictatorship as she records her own personal experiences and those of others w

Revised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup—“the evidence is overwhelming” (The New

This book tells the extraordinary story of the Pinochet regime's economists, known as the "Chicago Boys". It explores the roots of their ideas and their sense o