Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U. S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single convenient villain. Extensively researched and written with conviction and