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Article: Thank God They're on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1921-1965.(Review)
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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Thank God They're on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1921-1965. By David F. Schmitz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 309 pp., notes, index.
From Winthrop's "City on a Hill" to Wilson's "democratic idealism" to Reagan's "Crusade for Democracy" to Clinton's "Enlargment" strategy, the rhetoric, at least, of U.S. support for democracy has a long and well-established history. Yet, any careful review of U.S. foreign policy produces results suggesting that, far from promoting or supporting democracy, the United States has been responsible for installing, supporting, and sustaining nondemocratic, right-wing governments in ...