by Sydney W. Mintz
Viking, 1985
274 pp. $20
Denis Mack Smith unification-Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Knopf, 1985 Mazzini, and Camille de Cavour-Cavour
294 pp. $18.95 was perhaps the most unlikely. A cautious
liberal who believed economic unity should
precede political nationhood, he rarely left
his native Piedmont (the northern Italian
state that belonged to the Kingdom of Sardi-
nia) and spoke better French than Italian.
Mack Smith, an Oxford historian, chronicles
the life of this unlikely national hero. Born
into an aristocratic...
by Stephen Saunders Webb
Knopf, 1984
440 pp. $25
by Hugh Gregory Gallagher few
Dodd, 1985
250 pp. $16.95
by Nathaniel Davis
Cornell, 1985
480 pp. $24.95
suicide, Davis believes) and the toppling of his Unidad Popular (UP) regime the Chilean military. Suspicions of such involvement are justified. President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger called Allende's 1970 victory at the polls a "serious threat"; accordingly, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) concocted two plans for removing the Marxist leader. U.S. firms, including Interna- tional Telephone and Telegraph, felt threat- ened by Allende's nationalization proposals. But Allende had...