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Review: Latin America: Castroism and Communism in Latin America, 1959–1976

paring his 'oral history' of the Diefenbaker years. Leadership Lost, the second of two volumes, begins where volume two of One Canada leaves off. It draws on interviews with fifty-six of Diefenbaker's friends, such as Gordon Churchill and Alvin Hamilton, and enemies, notably Dalton Camp and Jack Pickersgill. No foreigners were interviewed and most of the book deals with domestic issues. The nuclear weapons controversy is lightly treated, however, and the Munsinger case receives more attention than it deserves. Leadership Lost is lively reading. Stursberg proves his point that politicians and officials often talk in a more interesting fashion than they write. He has purged many of the errors that occur so frequently in oral discourse, but striking conflicts in testimony remain. Douglas Harkness, for example, recalls that the 'great majority' in cabinet supported his position on nuclear weapons whereas Alvin Hamilton, another generally reliable witness, places the number of supporters at four or five. Stursberg rarely indicates which of the contending versions he prefers. Nor does he explain the criteria for selecting the 15-