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November 10, 2005
Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Red Dirt: Growing up Okie and Outlaw Woman (among other books) has just released her new memoir of the Contra War in Nicaragua, Blood on the Border. I was fortunate enough to catch Roxanne's presentation of the book at City Lights Books, last night, and pick up a copy. It's a fantastic book, and a great (and accessible) introduction to the Reagan-backed Contra War against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Blood on the Border connects the personal and political—as Roxanne's memoirs do so well—but also connects past and present, showing how many architects of the Contra War (Eliot Abrams, Otto Reich, and John Poindexter, to name a few) served or continue to serve in the G.W. Bush administration.
Sneaking in a self-promotion: an adapted section of the book, discussing propaganda in the Contra War and the creation of the Office of Public Diplomacy, can be found in the Winter 2006 issue of LiP, available in good bookstores everywhere.
For more information about the book, visit http://www.southendpress.org/2005/items/7417.
Posted by erin at November 10, 2005 09:23 AM