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media. During the preceding months, two groups had struggled for control of the FSLN: the (victorious) orthodox faction led by former president Daniel Ortega that upheld the revolutionary vanguard conception of the party and the more loosely organized renovationists who hoped to create a more open, electorally oriented party. At stake was control of the party’s major institutions, including Barricada, and the party’s 1996 presidential nomination. Barricada did not take an editorial position in the struggle, but Chamorro and many of his editors were associated with the renovationists. Jones’s sympathies in the struggle over Barricada are clear. Early on, he acknowledges his own bias in favor of Barricada’s second incarnation (p. xiii). Moreover, Jones’s narrative is highly dependent on one source: Carlos Fernando Chamorro. He did interview many others, including Chamorro’s successors at the paper, and he quotes them extensively, but the book is written from the perspective of Chamorro and those who worked closely with him. Toward the end of the book, Jones offers a few thoughtful paragraphs about media under authoritarian regimes and in periods of transition. But Beyond the Barricades is not a book motivated by theory. It is valuable as a narrative history of an important institution and for the light it casts on the internal politics of the FSLN in the 1990s.