• Presents a single-volume thematic study that explores experiences with dictatorship as well as their social and historical contexts in Latin America
• Examines at the ideological and economic crossroads that brought Argentina, Brazil and Chile under the thrall of military dictatorship
• Draws on recent historiographical currents from Latin America to read these regimes as radically ideological and inherently unstable
• Makes a close reading of the economic trajectory from dependency to development and democratization and neoliberal reform in language that is accessible to general readers
• Offers a lively and readable narrative that brings popular perspectives to bear on national histories

Selected as a 2014 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE