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Author Colby, Gerard, author

Title Thy will be done : the conquest of the Amazon : Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the age of oil / Gerard Colby ; with Charlotte Dennett
Published New York, New York : Open Road Integrated Media, 2017
ß1995

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Description 1 online resource (1,061 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Series Forbidden Bookshelf
Forbidden bookshelf series.
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Contents; Series Introduction; The End of an Era: An Introduction and Brief Update for the 2017 Edition; Introduction; I: The Legacy; 1 The Baptist Burden; 2 The Fundamentalist Controversy; 3 Rethinking Missions; 4 The Apostolic Vision; 5 The Rites of Political Passage; 6 Good Neighbors Make Good Allies; 7 The Mexican Tightrope; II: World War II: The Crucible; 8 The Coordinator; 9 The Sword of the Spirit; 10 The Shining Dream; 11 The Dancer; 12 Preempting the Cold War; 13 Latin America's First Cold War Coup; III: Architects of Empire; 14 American Wings over the Amazon
15 The Pretender at Bay16 The Latin Road to Power; 17 In the Wake of War-and the CIA; IV: Prophets of Armageddon; 18 Ike's Cold War General; 19 Disarming Disarmament; 20 Messengers of the Sun; 21 The Hidden Persuaders; 22 The Brotherhood; 23 Ascent of the Hawk; V: The Day of the Watchman; 24 Deadly Inheritance; 25 Building the Warfare State; 26 Miracles Déjà Vu; 27 Camelot Versus Pocantico: The Decline and Fall of John F. Kennedy; VI: The Slaughter of the Innocents; 28 To Turn a Continent; 29 Operation Brother Sam; 30 Beneath the Eyebrows of the Jungle; 31 Mistaken Identities
32 Poisons of the Amazon33 Death of a Continental Revolution; 34 The Enemy Within; 35 Apocalypse Now: The Tribes of Indochina; 36 "Nation-Building" Through War; 37 Tet: The Year of the Monkey; 38 Nelson's Last Charge; VII: A New World Order; 39 Invasion of the Amazon; 40 Rocky Horror Road Show; 41 Forging the Dollar Zone; 42 In the Age of Genocide; 43 Critical Choices; 44 Hiding the Family Jewels; VIII: Days of Judgment; 45 SIL Under Siege; 46 The Betrayal; 47 The Great Tribulation; 48 Thy Will Be Done; Appendix A: The Rockefeller Mission to the Americas (1969)
Appendix B: Members of the Rockefeller Commission on CIA Abuses (1975)Notes; Selected Bibliography; Image Gallery; Index; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Copyright Page
Summary The United States' secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the mid-twentieth century is revealed in this "blistering expose", with a new introduction by the authors (Publishers Weekly). What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent' Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year campaign led by Standard Oil scion Nelson Rockefeller and Wycliffe Bible Translators founder William Cameron Townsend to establish a US imperial beachhead in Central and South America. Beginning in the 1940s, future Vice President Rockefeller worked with the CIA and allies in the banking industry to prop up repressive governments, devastate the Amazon rain forest, and destabilize local economies-all in the name of anti-Communism. Meanwhile, Townsend and his army of missionaries sought to undermine the belief systems of the region's Indigenous peoples and convert them to Christianity. Their combined efforts would have tragic and long-lasting repercussions, argue the authors of this "well-documented" (Los Angeles Times) book-the product of eighteen years of research-which legendary progressive historian Howard Zinn called "an extraordinary piece of investigative history. Its message is powerful, its data overwhelming and impressive."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979.
Townsend, William Cameron, 1896-1982.
SUBJECT Townsend, William Cameron, 1896-1982 fast
Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979 fast
Subject Wycliffe Bible Translators
SUBJECT Wycliffe Bible Translators fast
Subject Petroleum industry and trade -- Amazon River Region -- History -- 20th century
Indians of South America -- Missions -- Amazon River Region
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Presidents & Heads of State.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Politics and government
Petroleum industry and trade
Indians of South America -- Missions
SUBJECT South America -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005368
Amazon River Region -- History
Subject South America
Amazon River Region
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Dennett, Charlotte, contributor
ISBN 1504048393
9781504048392