November 2003    Each month a different member of our distinguished panel of book reviewers recommends the best books discussed in Foreign Affairs in the past year. This month, Kenneth Maxwell gives his picks for the best books on the Western Hemisphere.

A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century
Luis Alberto Romero, translated by James P. Brennan
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002
Read May/June 2003 review

Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez Era: Class, Polarization and Conflict
Edited by Steve Ellner and Daniel Hellinger
Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2003
Read May/June 2003 review

Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington's Futile War on Drugs in Latin America
Ted Galen Carpenter
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
Read May/June 2003 review

More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America's War in Colombia
Robin Kirk
New York: PublicAffairs, 2003
Read March/April 2003 review

The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Peron's Argentina
Uki Goni
New York: Granta Books, 2002
Read January/February 2003 review

Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana
Ann Louise Bardach
New York: Random House, 2002
Read January/February 2003 review

The Year in Books Index

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