Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti-Memoir Hardcover - 2000

Media reviews

“Tragic, suspenseful and filled with the tiny personal details that bring history to life ...”—LA Weekly

“Pinochet and Me provides a passionate first-hand chronicle of Chile’s transformation from socialist democracy to brutal, militaristic regime to problematic poster nation for free-market capitalism.”—Mother Jones

“Cooper’s judicious prose issues forth from the lime-sprinkled sinkhole of Chile’s collective amnesia, attempting to construct a besieged and busted-out past. The author sets a defiant language against the obliterating shadow cast by Pinochet’s regime; he struggles to breathe remembrance into a decades-long nightmare of civilian death, imprisonment and exile.”—Village Voice

“Rarely does one find a book that is simultaneously so gripping, politically insightful and thoroughly humane in spirit ... [Pinochet and Me is] unforgettable.”—Shepherd Express

“Cooper wastes no time in nailing the lie—still propagated by Pinochet’s apologists—that Allende’s regime lacked democratic legitimacy, that torture and assassinations were ‘a price worth paying for economic stability.’”—Times Literary Supplement

“Remembering Chile’s past with passion and pain, and witnessing Chile’s present with heart-breaking lucidity and irony, Marc Cooper offers us many roads into the surreal country that, incredibly, has produced both Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet.”—Ariel Dorfman

“In writing from Chile, Marc Cooper vividly and masterfully evokes some of the darkest chapters of US Cold War policy. This book brings to life the compelling human history buried under three decades of official stories and distortions.”—Warren Beatty

“Democratic Chile was indispensable in the education of Marc Cooper. Now he redeems the debt by becoming indispensable for our education in democratic Chile.”—Christopher Hitchens