Promotional Information

The third volume in the trilogy "The Memory Box of Pinochet's Chile" that discusses the aftermath following the departure of the dictator.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiii
Maps xviii
Introduction to the Trilogy: The Memory Box of Pinochet's Chile xxi
Introduction to Book Three: Reckoning with Pinochet 1
1. The Perils of Truth: Opening the Memory Box, 1989–1990 13
Afterword: "My Dear President" 61
2. Toward Memory Impasse? The Truth Commission Moment, 1990–1991 65
Afterword: The Futility of History? 99
3. The Circle of Truth, Justice, and Force, 1990–1994 106
Afterword: The Sound of Tick-Tock 136
4. Between Prudence and Convulsion: Memory, Triumphalism, and Disenchantment, 1994–1997 143
Afterword: The Joys of "Not Too Much" 200
5. The Turn: Consequences of 1998 211
Afterword: Covering History with History? The Making of Silence 265
6. Memory as Unfinished Work: New Reckonings, 2002–2006 273
Afterword: Unsettled Moments: The Struggle for Londres 38 314
7. Reframing Democratic Transition: Toward the Memory Paradox of Bachelet's Chile 324
Afterword: The Curious Burial of Augusto Pinochet 348
Conclusion: Reckoning with Pinochet 357
Abbreviations Used in Notes and Essay on Sources 387
Notes 389
Essay on Sources 503
Index 525

About the Author

Steve J. Stern is the Alberto Flores Galindo Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of books including Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973–1988, winner of the Bolton-Johnson Prize (the Conference on Latin American History), and Remembering Pinochet’s Chile: On the Eve of London 1998. Both books received Honorable Mention, Bryce Wood Book Award (Latin American Studies Association). Both are also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

"This is a master work on what has proved to be one of the late 20th-century's key events: Chile's transition from General Pinochet's brutal rule to a growing promise of democracy. But it is much more. Steve J. Stern convincingly argues not only that the transition was made possible by a fierce battle over the 'memory' of Pinochet's rule and a 'healthier, accountable democracy,' but concludes by placing this struggle in a profound global context: in the early 1970s many nations began a historic shift toward human rights concerns and democracy, a shift on which Chile's experience has had a major, and reciprocal, influence."oWalter LaFeber, Andrew and James Tisch University Professor Emeritus, Cornell University "Reckoning with Pinochet is the best account of the trajectory of historical memory under Chile's restored democracy from 1989 until 2006, and a revealing window on that era and its democratic transition. It reflects Steve J. Stern's comprehensive knowledge of this period in Chile's history and his empathetic sensibility, which enables him to see the issues he discusses through the eyes even of people with whom he profoundly disagrees."oPeter Winn, editor of Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973-2002