Thy Will Be Done
The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil
A blistering exposé of the USA's secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction (Publishers Weekly). What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year campaign led by Standard Oil scion Nelson Rockefeller and Wycliffe Bible Translators founder William Cameron Townsend to establish a US imperial beachhead in Central and South America. Beginning in the 1940s, future Vice President Rockefeller worked with…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Dennett, Charlotte
- ISBN: 978-1-5040-4839-2
- EAN: 9781504048392
- Produktnummer: 31911241
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 960 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 69'380 KB
- Reihenbandnummer: 25
Über den Autor
Gerard Colby is a writer, investigative journalist, and educator. He has written for the North American Newspaper Alliance, the Nation, the Los Angeles Times, In These Times, and TowardFreedom.com. Colby has taught the history of the political economy of Central America at Burlington College and political science and international economics at Johnson State College in Vermont, and is currently studying for a master's degree in American history at the University of Vermont. Colby is a cofounder of the Henry Demarest Lloyd Investigative Fund and former president of the National Writers Union. He is the author of DuPont Dynasty: Behind the Nylon Curtain, coauthor with Charlotte Dennett of Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil, and a contributor to Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press, edited by Kristina Borjesson.
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