I'd like a good book on... [the book request thread]

[defspace]

VSalon serves up a good 50% of the books on my night stand. Often I think about some topic and think that someone here probably has a good recommendation. So let's give this a shot. Take a penny, leave a penny.

I'd like a good book on American involvement in Latin American regime change during the Cold War.

[Mabouya]

I'd like a good book on American involvement in Latin American regime change during the Cold War.

Here's one option that is pretty good:

https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Fost.../dp/0805094970

[zetroc]

Also check out his "Bitter Fruit" with Stephen Schlesinger:

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog....=9780674019300

[j44ke]

Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman has a pretty great book of poetry called "In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land" about the oppression he experienced. Obviously poetry is not history, but it is a product of the direct experience of history. And Dorfman had direct experience.

"Chile: The Other September 11" includes an essay from Dorfman and others recalling their experiences around 09-11-73 when Allende was killed and replaced by Pinoche in the coup orchestrated by the CIA. I have not read this yet, but it was recommended to me by an Argentinian friend whose family bounced back and forth between Argentina and Chile until finally fleeing to Israel several years after Pinoche came to power.

[Octave]

A few years back I read Michael Huemer's book "The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey" and I've yet to come across any political philosophy that convinced me that I should participate in implied or coerced exchanges of "fairness" or "equality" that do not align with my personal values - yet this is how modern society largely functions. I'm interested in counterpoints that would support the moral foundation for participation in societal exchanges of that nature; who has a good book to recommend countering Robert Nozick, J.S. Mill et al? Or, who has written a convincing 20th- or 21st-century argument for utilitarianism?