Work
Bitter Fruit
Book by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer on the 1954 Guatemalan coup (Doubleday, 1982).
- Dates
- 1982
- Also known as
- Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
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features
- The 1954 coup in Guatemala told by Schlesinger and Kinzer Scholarship & press 1
- John Foster Dulles the authors’ account of the Dulles brothers’ ties to the company: general counsel to the Schroder bank, he handled the 1936 negotiations with United Fruit Scholarship & press 1
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- 1982 Bitter Fruit
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Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer, Doubleday, 1982), Doubleday, 1982.
Scholarship & press
But the takeover of United Fruit land was probably the decisive factor pushing the Americans into action.
Dulles, as general counsel to Schroder, handled the negotiations, arranging a cozy deal with United Fruit at the expense of his putative client, IRCA, and reaping a tidy profit for the Schroder Banking Corporation.
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