"A Confederacy of Fear" examines the developments that led American legislators and journalists to see the reformist regime of Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán (1951-1954) as a beachhead for international communism in the Western Hemisphere and an existential threat to American democracy. It draws on the archives of prominent Senators and Congressmen; press accounts; Guatemalan and American print sources; and the declassified files of the CIA, State Department, and Congress to pro...