Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press - Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St Clair

Because his manner was so assured and friendly and his ability to read from a script so well-honed from Hollywood days Ronald Reagan was known as “the Great Communicator” during his presidency, but he had enormous difficulty in communicating one simple but very important message to the American public: the wickedness of the Sandinista government running Nicaragua and the urgent need to overthrow it before its army had smashed its way through Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico, and was rumbling across the Texan border. Try as he might, the American public stubbornly refused to accept this. One night he went on national television to try again, and he must have ...  Read the complete review