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The article reviews the book "Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America," edited by Jessica Stites Mor, part of the Critical Human Rights series.

The article reviews the book "El peso de la sangre: Limpios, Mestizos y Nobles en el mundo Hispánico," edited by Nikolaus Böttcher, Bernd Hausberger, and Max S. Hering Torres.

A review of the book "The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean: Fragments of Memory" edited by Kristin Ruggiero is presented.

Reviews the book "Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America," edited by Sara Castro-Klarén and John Charles Chasteen.

J. Fred Rippy, in his book "Historical Evolution of Hispanic America," has tried the experiment of treating Latin American history as a unit, dividing it into three main topical divisions, colonial, national, and international relations. While he handles the literary, intellectual, and artistic movements relatively lightly, he devotes considerable attention to social and economic as well as to political movements. F.A. Kirkpatrick's history of Argentina in "A History of Argentine Republic," is a different sort of book-in two ways. It is an outgrowth of the effort of the British to make closer cultural, economic, and political contacts with a country in which they have some $2,500,000,000 invested; and it places more emphasis upon the literature and life of the people. Frank Tannenbaum's "Whiter Latin America?," is a brief compilation, but useful, of the leading facts regarding population, industrial development, finance, trade, transportation, education, labor, and agriculture in Latin America. It is just such a collection of facts as a "tired" business man or a ladies' club speaker might wish to master in an evening's pleasant reading.

The article reviews the book "Accounting for Violence: Marketing Memory in Latin America," edited by Ksenija Bilbija and Leigh A. Payne, part of the book series entitled "The Culture and Practices of Violence Series."

The article reviews the book "Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy: The Alliance for Progress in Latin America," by Jeffrey F. Taffet.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Goods, Power, History: Latin America's Material Culture,' by Arnold J. Bauer.

Reviews the book `The Millennial New World,' by Frank Graziano.

Reviews the book `Latin American Merchant Shipping in the Age of Global Competition,' by Rene De La Pedraja.

Reviews the book 'Cities and Society in Colonial Latin America,' edited by Louisa Schell Hoberman and Susan Migden Socolow.

Book reviewed in this article: Stephen G. Rabe, The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'Jews of the Latin American Republics,' by Judith Laikin Elkin.