Confronting the American DreamMichel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U. S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny in the midnineteenth century through the U. S. occupation of 191233. Drawing on extensive research in Nicaraguan and U. S. archives, Gobat accounts for two seeming paradoxes that have long eluded historians of Latin America: that Nicaraguans so strongly