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America's Prisoner:

The Memoirs of Manuel Noriega

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An edition of America's Prisoner: (1997)

America's Prisoner:

The Memoirs of Manuel Noriega

Remaindered Marked edition
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Manuel Noriega is the only American prisoner of war. He may be a demon in the eyes of most Americans, but he has a unique and alarming view of the secrets behind U.S. relations with Panama and the real reasons for the 1989 invasion that removed him from power.

In this memoir, certain to be one of the most newsworthy and controversial of the year, Noriega describes for the first time his backstage dealings with George Bush, Oliver North, William Casey and the CIA, Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro and Moammar Gahdafi.

But this is more than a deposed strongman's tell-all that some might find hard to believe. Noriega's story was investigated independently by Peter Eisner, a top foreign correspondent who has written about Latin America for twenty years and covered Noriega's fall for Newsday.

Eisner's reporting finds support for some of Noriega's assertions and provides additional perspective for others, in his conduct as head of Panama's military, his secret dealings with Cuba on behalf of the CIA, his relations with key U.S. officials, and the unconscionable damage inflicted upon the people of Panama by the U.S. invasion. Moreover, Eisner raises new questions about the allegations that Noriega was a drug dealer and a murderer. In fact, he concludes Noriega is not guilty of these charges.

And then there is Noriega himself, a surprisingly savvy military man who saw himself as a nationalist, an honest broker between his allies in U.S. intelligence and his neighboring Latin American leaders. As Noriega tells it, his problems began when he began to resist the Reagan administration's efforts to fight communism in Central America.

America's Prisoner is one of the most unusual and important accounts ever written about U.S. aggression and duplicity. It is the story of how we have imprisoned a man - and a nation.

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Random House
Language
English
Pages
293

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America's Prisoner:: The Memoirs of Manuel Noriega
March 11, 1997, Random House
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Classifications

Library of Congress
F1567.N67 A3 1997, F1567.N67A3 1997, F1567.N67 N67 1997

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
293
Dimensions
10 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches
Weight
1.3 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7698927M
Internet Archive
americasprisoner0000nori
ISBN 10
0679432272
ISBN 13
9780679432272
LCCN
96027788
OCLC/WorldCat
34951199
Library Thing
1752261
Goodreads
417072

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