Nick Cullather
Author of Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954
Works by Nick Cullather
Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954 (1999) 121 copies
Illusions of Influence: The Political Economy of United States-Philippines Relations, 1942-1960 (Modern America) (1994) 2 copies
Associated Works
Diplomatic History (Volume 39, Number 1; January 2015) — Editor — 1 copy
Diplomatic History (Volume 39, Number 3; June 2015) — Editor — 1 copy
Diplomatic History (Volume 39, Number 5; November 2015) — Editor — 1 copy
Diplomatic History (Volume 40, Number 1; January 2016) — Editor — 1 copy
Diplomatic History (Volume 40, Number 2; April 2016) — Editor — 1 copy
Diplomatic History (Volume 40, Number 3; June 2016) — Editor — 1 copy
Diplomatic History (Volume 40, Number 4; September 2016) — Editor — 1 copy
Diplomatic History (Volume 40, Number 5; November 2016) — Editor — 1 copy
Diplomatic History (Volume 41, Number 1; January 2017) — Editor — 1 copy
Diplomatic History (Volume 42, Number 3; June 2018) — Editor — 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Cullather, Nicholas Barry
- Birthdate
- 1959-03-28
- Gender
- male
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- Popularity
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- Rating
- 3.9
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- 12
Things I struggled with in this book: it feels like it bounces all over the place geographically and to some extent temporally, at least in the latter half of the book? There were some historical figures who I really struggled to keep straight even as they appeared again and again. Also I read the e-book which comes with zero pictures, which is annoying. Also the conclusion struck me as very weird (there's a bit where he was like "PEOPLE DON'T CARE ABOUT FOOD-RELATED DEVELOPMENT ANY MORE BECAUSE OF 24-HOUR NEWS ON TV" and I was like 'that's not what your book is about but ok') and really jolted me out of the book in general. Also it just isn't generally the kind of book I find very interesting in the first place, so that was something that is my fault, not the book's.
All that being said, again, I would actually recommend this book because I think it has some important things to say about the ways that food-related development projects have been run historically (it stupidly had never occurred to me that 'there are starving children in China!' was a phrase more to do with defeating Communism than about actual children...) and I think that is really important in the politics around development today.… (more)