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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
A history of U.S.-backed mass violence in Indonesia and the Cold War programs that followed. Bevins argues that anticommunist crusades reshaped the Third World by making murder a method of policy.
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