Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet s legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America s dirty war dictators, Pinochet had ruled with extreme violence while building a loyal social base. Hero to some and criminal to others, the general cast a long shadow over Chile s future. Steve J. Stern recounts the full history of Chile s democratic reckoning, from the negotiations in 1989 to chart a post-dictatorship transition; through Pinochet s arrest in London in 1998; the thirtieth anniversary, in...