The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1962-1973: From Frondizi's Fall to the Peronist Restoration.

The Army and Politics in Argentina, 1962-1973: From Frondizi's Fall to the Peronist Restoration. By Robert A. Potash. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. xv, 547. $55.00.)

In 1969 Robert Potash published the first of a projected two-volume study of the Argentine military's role in politics from 1928 to 1962; the second volume appeared in 1980. Soon thereafter, a retired Argentine lieutenant general offered Potash the use of his unpublished memoirs if he would extend his work to a third volume. The result is the current book, which follows closely the same…