Military Power and Popular Protest: The U.S. Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico (review)
Organizationally, the book can be confusing. There is overlap between chapters and the delimitation of themes, episodes, and personalities is not always clear. On the other hand, Anhalt is exceptionally engaging when pursuing the details of a particular event (for example, her lively discussion of the brouhaha over alleged communist ties to the Escuela de Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende) and in recounting her own mixed feelings about her Mexico City childhood.