At the age of 20, after being expelled from his California
university for anti-war activism, Marc Cooper moved to Santiago and
worked as translator for Chilean President Salvador Allende. The
heat of Allende's socialist revolution forged Cooper's political
and reporting skills, indelibly imprinting them with a radical
perspective. In 1973, at great personal risk, he began first-hand
reporting on the fiery destruction of Allende's government and
Chilean democracy as a result of the US-financed coup. Twenty years
later, travelling as a radical journalist in a reactionary world,
Cooper continues to chronicle, with humor and detail, the events
that make the headlines. In this book, he takes readers on a tour
of the New World Order, including Pinochet's Chile, Nicaragua in
the last hours of the Sandinistas, Soweto under siege, Panama still
smoking after the US invasion, Baghdad bracing for the apocalypse
and into the new Moscow mafia. The title piece shows Che Guevara's
grandson and a new generation of Cuban youth still yearning for
Che's ever-elusive promise of freedom. The second half of the book,
set exclusively in the US, gives a ground-level view of a society
in dizzying decay. Readers fly in Bill Clinton's private campaign
plane from New Hampshire to Georgia while the candidate shifts his
image-even his accent-in the quest for votes. Readers are guided
through America's cultural background, from Dan Quayle and his
confrontation with Hollywood to the ambassadors from armageddon who
dominated the 1992 Republican Convention. When Cooper's home town,
Los Angeles, burns with a thousand fires of rage, he takes readers
to the very edge of history, describing America's war with itself.
This journey culminates in a personal trip to the city that stands
as an icon for the marketplace ethos of today-Las Vegas.
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