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Offers a comprehensive overview of the Iran-Contra affair, describing the events leading up to the scandal, in which the United States government offered Nicaraguan rebel forces missiles in exchange for American hostages, the Reagan administration's involvement in the event, and its impact on American and Middle Eastern politics.

"Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia proposes that utopias are not only for novelists and poets; contemporary dictators, Marxist revolutionaries, and neoliberal economists also deal with promises and hubris, with imagined national destinies that often end up in conflict and disaster"-- Provided by publisher.