From the Publisher's note:
Writing this book from his exile in Puerto Rico, Juan Bosch observed that the clock of Dominican history, stopped during the Trujillo regime, began to move at double speed once the dictator was dead. After more than thirty years under one government, the Dominican Republic has seen more than a half dozen regimes come and go in the past four years. The only one of these to come to power through a popular election was Dr. Bosch's, inaugurated in February, 1963. With the victory of Dr. Bosch and his party - the PRD - the Dominican Republic was hailed as a "showcase of democracy," as proof that the disease of dictatorship was not chronic and that a healthy democracy could be established within the body politic. But seven months after he took office, Dr. Bosch was sent into exile, the victim of a military coup.
Reviewed in The Hispanic American Historical Review © 1966.
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